taill (tal)

[ tail Ich haue no tome to telle the tail that hem folweth, Of many manere men for Medes sake sent after. Piers Plowman (C), iii. 196. Why should her worship lack Her tail of maids, more than you do of men? B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, ii. 1. "Ah!... if you Saxon Duinhé-wa el (English gentleman) saw but the Chief with his tail on!" "With his tail on?" echoed Edward, in some surprise. "Yes - that is, with all his usual followers when he visits those of the same rank." Scott , Waverley, xvi. 5. The hinder, bottom, or concluding part of anything, g. in space or in time; the part or sec tion opposed to the head, ma , or beginning; the termination or extremity; the back; the rear; the conclusion. Beches and brode okes were blowen to the grounde, Torned vpward her [their] tailles in tokenynge of drede. Piers Plowman (B), v. 19. And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail. Deut. xxviii. 13. Men that dig, And lash away their lives at the cart's tail, Double our comforts. Fletcher , Loyal Subject, ii. 1. In the tayle of a Hericano wee were separated from the Admirall. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 235. Hee comes, and with a great trayne at his tayle . Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins, p. 32. Specifically - (a) Of a coin, the reverse, or the side opposite that bearing the head or effigy, as in the expre ion head or tail, or heads and tails, with reference to the side that may turn in the to ing or twirling of coins as a game. Compare cro and pile, under cro 1. (b) Of a roofing-slate or-tile, or the like, the lower or exposed part. (c) Of a projecting stone or brick built into a wall, the inner or covered end. Also called tailing. (d) pl. That which is left of a ma of material after treatment, as by distillation or trituration and decantation; a residuum; tailings. The tails or faints, as well as the still le volatile or ordinary fusel oil, are mixtures of several alcohols and fatty acid ethers. Science, XVI. 129. The presence in it [mercury] of the minutest trace of lead or tin causes it to "draw tails ." Encyc. Brit ., XVI. 32. (e) In surg., a part of an incision at its beginning or end which does not go through the whole thickne of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision. Also called tailing. 6. pl. A coat with tails. See tail -coat. [Local.] Once a boy [at Harrow School in England] has reached the modern remove, he puts on his tails , or tailed coat. St. Nicholas , XIV. 406. 7. In bookbinding, the bottom or lower edge of a book. The term is applied both to the paper of the text and to the cover of the book.-8. The handle of some kinds of rake, as of those used for oystering, etc.-9. In mining, the poor part, or that part deposited at the lower end of a trough in which tin ore settles as it flows from the stamps, according to the mode of ore-dre ing employed in some Cornish mines. part the craze, and the upper the head; each of these divisions is concentrated separately in a round buddle, and then finished off in the keeves. This method is adopted in certain mines where the rock IMG:content-2772.jpg:[graphic] Lakshmi, and suspended by a consecrated string of many fine yellow threads: worn by the wives of Brahmans. Also tali. tahona (ta-hō'nä), n. [Sp., a mill, esp. one worked by a horse or mule, also atahona,