Tag"let (?), n. A little tag.
||Tagl"ia (?), n. [It., a cutting, a pulley, from tagliare to cut. See
||Tailor.] (Mech.) A peculiar combination of pulleys. Brande & C.
||
Tagl`ia*co"tain (?), a. (Surg.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a
Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of
rhinoplasty described by him. [Also Taliacotian, and Tagliacozzian.]
Tagl*io"ni (?), n. A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; — said to be so
named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.
He ought certainly to exchange his taglioni, or comfortable greatcoat,
for a cuirass of steel.
Sir W. Scott.
Tag"lock` (?), n. An entangled lock, as of hair or wool. Nares.
Tag"ni*cate (?), n. (Zoöl.) The white-lipped peccary.
Tag"-rag` (?), n. & a. [See Tag an end, and Rag.] The lowest class of
people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.
If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man.
Shak.
Tag"sore` (?), n. (Far.) Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool
from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; — called also
tagbelt. [Obs.]
Tag"tail` (?), n. 1. A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.
2. A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the
latter; a hanger-on.
Tag"u*an (?), n. [From the native name in the East Indies.] (Zoöl.) A
large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet
long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
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Ta`gui*ca"ti (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) The white-lipped
peccary.
Ta"ha (?), n. The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis
texor).
Ta*ha"leb (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) A fox (Vulpes
Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
Ta*hi"ti*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the
Pacific Ocean. — n. A native inhabitant of Tahiti.
Tahr (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Thar.
Tail (?), n. [F. taille a cutting. See Entail, Tally.] (Law)
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.
Tail, a. (Law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
Tail, n. [AS. tægel, tægl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw. tagel,
Goth. tagl hair. √59.] 1. (Zoöl.) The terminal, and usually flexible,
posterior appendage of an animal.
The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebræ,
and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales like those of other parts
of the body. The tail of existing birds consists of several more or
less consolidated vertebræ which supports a fanlike group of quills to
which the term tail is more particularly applied. The tail of fishes
consists of the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a caudal
fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the entire abdomen of a
crustacean or insect, and sometimes to the terminal piece or pygidium
alone.
2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape
or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails
that hang on willow trees.
Harvey.
3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, — as
opposed to the head, or the superior part.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail.
Deut. xxviii. 13.