tail

【律】限定所有权, 限定继承权; 限定继承的产业

tail

the region of the vertebrate body that is posterior to or above the anus and contains an elongation of the vertebral column, esp forming a flexible movable appendage

anything resembling such an appendage in form or position; the bottom, lowest, or rear part

the last part or parts

the rear part of an aircraft including the fin, tail plane, and control surfaces; empennage

the luminous stream of gas and dust particles, up to 200 million kilometres long, driven from the head of a comet, when close to the sun, under the effect of the solar wind and light pressure

the rear portion of a bomb, rocket, missile, etc, usually fitted with guiding or stabilizing vanes

a line of people or things

a long braid or tress of hair

Also called: tailfly the lowest fly on a wet-fly cast

a final short line in a stanza

a person employed to follow and spy upon another or others

an informal word for buttocks

the female genitals.a woman considered sexually (esp in the phrases piece of tail, bit of tail)

the margin at the foot of a page.the bottom edge of a book

the lower end of a pool or part of a stream

the course or track of a fleeing person or animal

coming from or situated in the rear

to form or cause to form the tail

to remove the tail of (an animal); dock

to remove the stalk of

to connect (objects, ideas, etc) together by or as if by the tail

to follow stealthily

to tend (cattle) on foot

(of a vessel) to assume a specified position, as when at a mooring

to build the end of (a brick, joist, etc) into a wall or (of a brick, etc) to have one end built into a wall

See tail off See tail out See tails

tail

the limitation of an estate or interest to a person and the heirs of his bodySee entail

(of an estate or interest) limited in this way