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Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt.
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A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.
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A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.
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A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
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The white-lipped peccary.
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The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).
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A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
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Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean.
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A native inhabitant of Tahiti.
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Limitation; abridgment.
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Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
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The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
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Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
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Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
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A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
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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.
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The distal tendon of a muscle.
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A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
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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.