tail的意思|tail的解释-里氏词典

Tail \Tail\, a. (Law)
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.

Tail \Tail\, n. [AS. t[ae]gel, t[ae]gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel.
tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. [root]59.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior
appendage of an animal.

Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of
movable vertebr[ae], and is covered with flesh and
hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body.
The tail of existing birds consists of several more or
less consolidated vertebr[ae] which supports a fanlike
group of quills to which the term tail is more
particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of
the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a
caudal fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the
entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes
to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.

2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles,
in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.

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

3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of
anything, -- as opposed to the {head}, or the superior
part.

The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail.
--Deut.
xxviii. 13.

4. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

``Ah,'' said he, ``if you saw but the chief with his
tail on.'' --Sir W.
Scott.

5. 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.

6. (Anat.) The distal tendon of a muscle.

7. (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes.
It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

8. (Surg.)
(a) 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}.
(b) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by
splitting the bandage one or more times.

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

10. (Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly
upward or downward from the head; the stem. --Moore
(Encyc. of Music).

11. pl. Same as {Tailing}, 4.

12. (Arch.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part,
as a slate or tile.

13. pl. (Mining) See {Tailing}, n., 5.

14. (Astronomy) the long visible stream of gases, ions, or
dust particles extending from the head of a comet in the
direction opposite to the sun.
[PJC]

15. pl. (Rope Making) 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

16. pl. A tailed coat; a tail coat. [Colloq. or Dial.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

17. (A["e]ronautics) In airplanes, an airfoil or group of
airfoils used at the rear to confer stability.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

18. the buttocks. [slang or vulgar]
[PJC]

19. sexual intercourse, or a woman used for sexual
intercourse; as, to get some tail; to find a piece of
tail. See also {tailing[3]}. [slang and vulgar]
[PJC]

{Tail beam}. (Arch.) Same as {Tailpiece}.

{Tail coverts} (Zo["o]l.), the feathers which cover the bases
of the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than
the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the
quills are called the {upper tail coverts}, and those
below, the {under tail coverts}.

{Tail end}, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end
of a contest. [Colloq.]

{Tail joist}. (Arch.) Same as {Tailpiece}.

{Tail of a comet} (Astron.), a luminous train extending from
the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and
usually in a direction opposite to the sun.

{Tail of a gale} (Naut.), the latter part of it, when the
wind has greatly abated. --Totten.

{Tail of a lock} (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance
into the lower pond.

{Tail of the trenches} (Fort.), the post where the besiegers
begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire
of the place, in advancing the lines of approach.

{Tail spindle}, the spindle of the tailstock of a turning
lathe; -- called also {dead spindle}.

{To turn tail}, to run away; to flee.

Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out
another way; but all was to return in a higher
pitch. --Sir P.
Sidney.

Tail \Tail\, n. [F. taille a cutting. See {Entail}, {Tally}.]
(Law)
Limitation; abridgment. --Burrill.

{Estate in tail}, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an
estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other
heirs are precluded; -- called also {estate tail}.
--Blackstone.

Tail \Tail\, v. t.
1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely
to, as that which can not be evaded. [Obs.]

Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds,
wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and
was called on the next Parliament. --Fuller.

2. To pull or draw by the tail. [R.] --Hudibras.

{To tail in} or {To tail on} (Arch.), to fasten by one of the
ends into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a
timber.

Tail \Tail\, v. i.
1. (Arch.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it
rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.

2. (Naut.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; --
said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down
stream.

{Tail on}. (Naut.) See {Tally on}, under {Tally}.

"Investigators have found, after extensive testing, that the interior tail cone release mechanism failed to separate the tail cone and deploy the emergency slide," National Transportation Safety Board member John Lauber said.
"Investigators have found, after extensive testing, that the interior tail cone release mechanism failed to separate the tail cone and deploy the emergency slide," National Transportation Safety Board member John Lauber said.
Flo was first spotted last January off the coast of Maui and is identified by her unique tail pattern.
The plane features a "V" tail atop a fuselage that ends in a rectangle, apparently completely encompassing the two engines that power the plane.
For one, he needs a better tail rudder to make a more airworthy sleigh.
So far the dig has recovered a jawbone, neck and tail vertebrae and chest bones, he said.
The Daedalus can travel at an altitude of 15 feet with a top speed of 14 mph and stretches 30 feet from propeller to tail.
At the Sheraton Inn, waitress Vicki Lowe, who is 32, wears her long hair in a pony tail.
Treasury bill auctions are usually tightly bid and rarely have more than a 0.02 percentage-point "tail," or gap between the average rate and the high rate.
In the elite circle of combat aviators, there is no greater skill than a perfect carrier landing - catching the third of four wires stretched across a rolling, pitching deck with a hook under the tail of an F-14 interceptor or A-7 light-attack aircraft.
It was also payable in three tranches which, for tax reasons, was expected to deter the overseas investor. But demand was so fierce there was no tail - the difference between the average accepted bid and the lowest accepted bid.
Debbie Dowdy, a radio operator with the Arkansas State Police, said Perry had just turned off his sprayer when his plane clipped the tail section of Tiefenback's aircraft.
The snapped tail boom caused the plane's huge 112-foot long wings to break, dropping the pink-and-silver aircraft 10 feet into the water.
The third major piece of wreckage, the tail section with the airline's yellow star insignia, sat on the dirt road, muddied by rains.
"My first impression wasn't entirely positive," Howe said during a eulogy as he noted he was turned off by Terry's wire-rimmed glasses and his long red pony tail.
'It's a good thing they've recognised the failure of interdiction but they are chasing the cat's tail.
Rescuers, working under the glare of emergency lights, placed slings under the tail section to keep it from sinking and had all survivors ashore within 40 minutes.
A mahout holds the elephant's tail in a semicircle, providing a toehold for the player to scramble atop the beast's back, hoisting himself up with ropes.
It undershot the runway by about half a mile, shearing off treetops and ripping apart with its tail embedded in the ground while the cockpit ended up in a thicket.
Officials discovered a charred area about 10 feet in diameter at the rear of the tail.
First, he has to launch the new national inspectorate, as yet no more than a page of statute enacted at the tail end of the last parliament in a messy compromise between the House of Lords and the then education secretary.
"We do not need to put the IRS on your tail for the rest of your life," he said.
It's there he made his stage debut at the age of 12, playing Machevilli the cat in a little something called "The Fairy Cobbler." "I was a big success because I played with my tail all through the show," he says.
But since the Race jet has no company markings or colors, it is possible that a second plane was used with forged tail numbers.
The FAA-ordered modification would require devices in the hydraulic system to keep fluid from leaking out in the event the lines in the tail section, where the hydraulic systems come the closest together, are cut.
The paper printed a photograph of a man with a long pole approaching a creature with a badger's head and a fox's tail against a backdrop of snowy peaks in the Cumbrian hills of northwest England.
Only the red, white and blue tail was left unscorched.
A 1966 DeHaviland Beaver seaplane with an old Esso tiger painted on its tail and uncertain salt-water wear sold for $435,000. New, the plane would cost about $700,000, said several air-taxi company officials in the crowd.
Executive officials and judges have suffered being on the end of the congressional tail that didn't wag.
The cats are tawny colored with a black tip on the tail.

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