Possible Definitions:
1. Tail (n.) In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.
2. Tail (n.) A tailed coat; a tail coat.
3. Tail (n.) In flying machines, a plane or group of planes used at the rear to confer stability.
4. Tail (n.) Limitation; abridgment.
5. Tail (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
6. Tail (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
7. Tail (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
8. Tail (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
9. Tail (n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
10. Tail (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
11. Tail (n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
12. Tail (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
13. Tail (n.) 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.
14. Tail (n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
15. Tail (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
16. Tail (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
17. Tail (n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
18. Tail (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
19. Tail (n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
20. Tail (v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
21. Tail (v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.
22. Tail (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
23. Tail (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
