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(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

Most primates have a tail and fangs.

The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

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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Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees.

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

Specifically, 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.

(statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as , a long tail.

One who surreptitiously follows another.

(cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g'', ''q'' or ''y .

(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.

(mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

A sequence $(a\_n)$ is said to be ''frequently $0$'' if every tail of the sequence contains $0$.

The buttocks or backside.

* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :

By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.

*, I.49:

They were wont to wipe their tailes .

(slang) The male member of a person or animal.

After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails''' were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent '''tail .

(slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.

I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.

(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.

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

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 13:

The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail .

A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

* (rfdate), Walter Scott:

"Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on."

(anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.

A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.

(surgery) 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.

One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

(nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

(music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

(mining) A tailing.

(architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

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(en noun)

(legal) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

tail male — limitation to male heirs

in tail — subject to such a limitation

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(en noun)

(label) A portion; a component.

#A fraction of a whole.

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#A distinct element.

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#A group inside a larger group.

#Share, especially of a profit.

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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

#A section of a document.

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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:

#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .

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Duty; responsibility.

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#Position or role (especially in a play).

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#(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

#*, II.15:

#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.

#*Bible, (w), ix.40:

#*:He that is not against us is on our part .

#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

*:men of considerable parts

* (1800-1859)

*:great quickness of parts

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.