tail

The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.

• Most primates have a tail and fangs.

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something.

• Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees.
• Using a thin tapestry needle, weave the warp tails back into the fabric in a warpwise direction and trim off the excess.

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

The tail-end of any object.

• And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.

• long tail

One who surreptitiously follows another.

To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

• This vessel tails downstream.

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

• Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled.

To follow and observe surreptitiously.transitive

• Tail that car!

To pull or draw by the tail.

• The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid, First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd

Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

• estate tail

Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

• tail male
• in tail