tail, tayl

t. & i. [TAIL (1), 8.] A. Transitive: 1. To pull by the tail or stern. "They toke foure Engly he shyppes, laded with vytell, and tayled them to their shyppes." -Berners: Froi art; Cron., vol. i., ch. xci. 2. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be intimately attached to, as something not easily to be got rid of. B. In trans.: To pull at the tail. (See extract under STAVE, v . , from Butler : Hudibras , I. iii. 133.) To tail in: Carp.: To fasten by one of the ends in a wall or any support; as, to tail in a timber. *tail-age, *tal-li-age (age as ig), s. [Fr. tail lage , from tailler =to cut off.] A portion cut out of a whole; a portion; a share of a man's substance paid as tribute; a tax, a toll. *tail-ag-er (ag as Ig), *tail-a-gier, s . [TAILAGE.] A collector of tailages or taxes. ( Rom . of the Rose .) tailed, *tayled, a . [Eng. tail (1), s.; -ed.] Hav. ing a tail. Frequently used in compounds, as long tailed , bob- tailed , . tailed-amphibia, s. pl. Zool.: The order Urodela (q. v.). tailed-men, s. pl. 1. Biol .: Men in whom the os coccyx has developed into a free tail. "There is reason to believe that there are always a few tailed-men of this kind living." - Jour. Anthrop. Inst., x. 447. tribe of aborigines, outcasts, or heretics, living near 2. Anthrop .: A term often applied to any despised or among a dominant population, who look upon them as beasts, and furnish them with tails accord ingly. ( Tylor : Prim. Cult . (ed. 1873), i. 383.) chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; tail-õr, *tayl-or, *tail-lour, *tayl-our, subst . [O. Fr. taille or ; Fr. tailleur a cutter, from tailler to cut, from taille an incision, a slitting, from Lat. talea =a thin rod, a stick.] 1. Ord. Lang .: One whose occupation it is to cut out and make up clothes, chiefly the outer garments of men, but sometimes also the heavier and stronger outer garments of women, as jackets, cloaks, . "His verse, like clothes, was made to fit him Which (as no taylor e'er denied) The better fit the more they're tried." Lloyd: An Epistle to Mr. Colman. 2. Ichthyology : A fish resembling the shad, but inferior to it in size and flavor. tailor-bird, s. Ornith.: Ortho tom us sutorius , a small bird about six inches long; general color olive greenish; wings brown, edged with green; crown of the head rufous, inclining to gray on the nape; tail light brown; outer feathers narrowly tipped with white; under surface of the body white; legs flesh-colored. The male has the two center tail-feathers lengthened. A native of India, the Eastern Peninsula, China, . It is found in gardens, hedgerows, orchards, jungles, ., sometimes in pairs, sometimes in small flocks, feeding on ants, cicadellas, and other small insects. Its name of Tailor-bird is derived from its nest, which is enclosed in leaves sewn with cobwebs, silk from cocoons, thread, wool, and vegetable fiber. The nest itself is formed of cotton-wool, with fine loose hairs, . Eggs three or four; in different nests they are of different colors, some being white, spotted with rufous or reddish-brown, others bluish-green. tailor-shad, s . Ichthyology: Pomoõlbus mediocris , a Mi i ippi river shad.