limitation; abridgment.-limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.-the terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.-any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.-hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.-a train or company of attendants; a retinue.-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.-the distal tendon of a muscle.-a downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. it is formed of the permanent elongated style.-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.-one of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.-a rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.-the part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.-same as tailing, 4.-the bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.-see tailing, n., 5.-to follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.-to pull or draw by the tail.-to hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.-to swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.