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The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
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Most primates have a tail and fangs.
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An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
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The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
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The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
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The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
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The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
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The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
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The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
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The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
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One who surreptitiously follows another.
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The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
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The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
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(chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
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All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
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The buttocks or backside.
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The penis of a person or animal.
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Sexual intercourse.
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I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
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(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
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A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
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The distal tendon of a muscle.
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A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
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A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
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A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
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One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
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A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
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The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
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A tailing.
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The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
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A tailcoat.