long tail

& a. A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. An animal, especially a dog, having an uncut tail. As the dogs of those not qualified to hunt had their tails cut, the word came to signify gentlefolk. "Come cut and long - tail under the degree of a squire" -Shakesp .: Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 4. 2. A greyhound. ( Slang .) IMG:content-0704.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Mining : An apparatus used in California for washing gold from the earth or gravel in which it is found. It consists of a wooden trough, from twelve to twenty-five feet long and about a foot wide. At its lower end it widens, and its floor there is of sheet-iron pierced with holes half an inch in diameter, under which is placed a flat box a couple of inches deep. The apparatus is set at an inclination over the place which is to be worked, and a stream of water is kept running through it by means of a hose; and, while some of the party shovel in the dirt, one man stands at the lower end stirring the ma , as it is washed down, and separating the stones, while the earth and gravel fall through the sieve into another box, where they are again sifted. ( Bartlett .) 2. Ordnance: A cannon of large size and special length. long-tongued, a . Talkative, chattering, prating. ( Shakesp .: Henry VI ., Pt . III ., ii. 2.) long-vacation, s. [VACATION.] IMG:content-0705.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Having good breath or wind; long-breathed. 2. Tedious; wearisome from prolixity. (Applied to persons and things.) "He would have nothing but long - winded cant without books."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. vi.