present participle of tail

The act of following someone. / (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. / (obsolete) sexual intercourse

plural of tailing

(mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing. / (alcohol production) The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.

(Chinese astronomy) A Chinese constellation coinciding with the tail of Scorpius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and the tail of Azure Dragon.

(slang) Clipping of tailcoat. / The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar. / (mining) Tailings; waste. / (alcohol production) Tailings, feints.

(transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously. / (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

(law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

(law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

plural of tail