Word Meanings - BICAUDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Two-tailed; bicaudal.

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• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• TAILRACE
  The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. (more info) 1. See Race, n., 6.
• BICAUDAL
  Having, or terminating in, two tails.
• TAILORING
  The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
• TAILOR
  The goldfish. Salt-water tailor , the bluefish. Bartlett. -- Tailor bird , any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which
• TAILBOARD
  The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
• TAILED
  Having a tail; having a tail or tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc. Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.
• TAIL-BAY
  One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay. 2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
• TAILAGE
  See TALLAGE
• TAILORESS
  A female tailor.
• TAILLE
  Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects. The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock
• TAILING
  The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. Gwilt.
• TAIL-WATER
  Water in a tailrace.
• TAILPIN
  The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
• TAILSTOCK
  The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
• TAILZIE
  An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
• TAILOR-MADE
  Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.
• TAILLIE
  See TAILZIE
• TAIL
  Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. Estate in tail, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate tail. Blackstone.
• TAILLESS
  Having no tail. H. Spencer.
• RAT-TAILED
  Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. Rat-tailed larva , the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See Eristalis. -- Rat-tailed serpent , the fer-de-lance. -- Rat-tailed shrew , the musk shrew.
• ENTAIL
  incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or 1. That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule
• GILTTAIL
  A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
• CAT O' NINE TAILS
  See CAT
• SCISSORSTAIL
  A tyrant flycatcher of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
• LION'S TAIL
  A genus of labiate plants ; -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
• FORKTAIL
  One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• BOAT-TAIL
  A large grackle or blackbird , found in the Southern United States.
• SPINE-TAILED
  Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
• ROUGHTAIL
  Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.
• FOXTAIL
  The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria. (more info) 1. The tail or brush of a fox.
• WIRE-TAILED
  Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.
• RETAIL
  The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
• SPINDLETAIL
  The pintail duck.