tai (ti)

[Jap.] The Japanese bream, Chrysophrys cardinal is, or Pagrus cardinal is, found in or at the mouths of Chinese and Japanese rivers, from Fuhkien in China to Saghalin. It is one of the best fishes of the Japanese, and is of a beautiful deep-red to a brown-red gold-color. I. I. Rein, Japan, p. 192. Taïc (tä'ik), a. and n. [ II. n. A collective name for the group of languages or dialects spoken by the Tai. taigle (tā'gl), v.; pret. and pp. taigled, ppr. taigling. [Appar. a Sc. var. of * taggle, freq. of tag1.] I. trans. To entangle; impede; hinder; hence, to fatigue; weary. Jamie son. [Scotch.] He cro ed the room, stepping over the tails of gowns, and stood before his old friend. The Century , XXXVI. 128. Specifically-(a) In an at .: (1) The slenderest or most movable part of a muscle, or the tendon of a muscle that is attached to the part especially moved when the muscle acts; the insertion, opposite the origin or head. (2) The outer corner of the eye; the exterior canthus: more fully called tail of the eye. (b) In entom ., one of the long slender prolongations backward of the wings, as of a butterfly or moth: more fully called tail of the wing . See cut under Papilio. (c) Some elongated flexible part or appendage, as proboscis or footstalk. (d) In astron., the luminous train, often of enormous length, extending from the head of a comet in a direction nearly opposite to that of the sun. (e) In bot., any slender terminal prolongation, as the appendage to the seeds of Clematis, Juncus, etc., or the linear extension from the base of the anther-lobes in many Compos itæ. Said also sometimes of a petiole or Naut., a rope spliced round a block so as to leave a long peduncle. (f) In musical notation, same as stem1, 6. (9) end by which the block may be attached to any object. See tail - block. 4. Something formed like a tail; an arrangement of objects or persons extending, or imagined to extend, as a tail or train. Specifically -(a) A long curl, braid, or gathering of hair: also called a cue or queue, or a pigtail, when hanging down behind in a single strand. I noticed half a dozen groups of slender damsels with short frocks and long tails , who may grow up to be the belles of the next generation. Congregationalist, Aug. 4, 1887. (b) A line of persons awaiting their turns, as at a ticket office or a bank; acue. (c) A train of followers or at ten leader; the following of a chief or commander. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. Neither head nor tail. See head. - Tail margin. See margin, 1.- Tail of a lock, on a canal, the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond. - Tail of a stream, a quiet part, where smooth water succeeds a swift or turbulent flow. He has ta'en the ford at that stream tail; I wot he swam both strong and steady. Annan Water (Child's Ballads, II. 189). In the tail of a swift stream, where it broadens out be- fore another white rapid, you hook a fish. Quarterly Rev., CXXVI. 341. Tail of the eye. See def. 3 (a) (2). Mi Lucy noticed this out of the tail of her eye. C. Reade, Love me Little, xiv. Tail of the pancreas, the end of the pancreas toward the spleen. Tail of the trenches, in fort ., the post where the besiegers begin to break ground and cover themselves from the fire of the defenders of the place in ad vancing the lines of approach. - Tail of the wing. See def. 3 (6). To nick a horse's tail. See nick1 . - Top and tail. See top1 . - Top over tailt. See top1 .-To put, cast, or lay salt on the tail of. See salt1 . - To turn tail, to turn the back; wheel about, as in aversion or fright; hence, to run away; flee; shirk an encounter. Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out an- other way; but all was to return in a higher pitch. Sir P. Sidney. ( Latham .) Our Sire (O too too proudly-base) Turn'd tail to God, and to the Fiend his face. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Furies. To twist the lion's tail, to do or say something intended to excite the resentment of the government or people of tail England (the allusion being to the lion in the English national coat of arms), and thereby to please the enemies of that country. (Humorous slang.] - With the tail between the legs, having the tail closely incurved between the legs, as a dog in terror or dejection; hence, with a cowed or abject air or look, like that of a beaten cur; having a humiliated appearance. [Colloq.] With the other dogs Zed and Toad come, and very much as if with their tails between their legs. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 264. taill (tāl), v. [ tail a kite or a salmon-fly. IMG:content-2773.png:[blocks in formation] A perfect distinction closes a perfect sense, and is marked with a round punct, thus or a tailed punct, thus? A. Hume , Orthographie (E. E. T. S.), p. 34. A double shackle is fixed, and each side is first tailed that is to say, a wire is pa ed round the porcelain and bound in the ordinary way, leaving one end projecting to a distance of from eighteen inches to two feet. Preece and Sivewright , Telegraphy, p. 224. 2. To join or connect as a tail; fix in a line or in continuation. Each new row of houses tailed on its drains to those of its neighbours. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 181. 3. To remove the tail or end of; free from any projection: as, to tail gooseberries. [Colloq.] -4. To pull by the tail. [Humorous.] The conqu'ring foe they soon a ail'd, First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd , Until their mastiffes loos'd their hold. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 134. 5. In Australia, to herd or take care of, as sheep or cattle. Desmard was allowed to gain experience by tailing (herding) those already brought in. A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, II. 115. To stave and tail. See stave. - To tail in, in carp ., to fasten by one end into a wall or any support: as, to tail in a timber. II. in trans. To extend, move, pa , or form a line or continuation in some way suggestive of a tail in any sense: used in certain phrases descriptive of particular kinds of action. To tail after, to follow closely upon the heels of; tag; tail. - To tail away, to move, stray, or fall behind in a scattering line; draw or be drawn out in a line, like men or dogs in a hunt. They were, however, tailing away fast, as we afterwards W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, II. 369. discovered. To tail off. (a) Same as to tail away. (b) To wind up. [Colloq.] The soft-hearted Slowboy tailed off at this juncture into a deplorable howl. Dickens , Cricket on the Hearth, iii. (c) To stop, as drinking, gradually; end by easy stages; taper off. [Colloq.] - To tail on, to join in a line; form a tail or cue for some purpose. All hands tailing on , we ran it [a boom] through the bowW. C. Ru ell , Sailor's Sweetheart, xiv. sprit cap. To tail up and down the stream, to tail to the tide (naut.), to swing up and down with the tide: said of a ship at anchor in a river or tideway.