7. (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is
formed of the permanent elongated style.
8. (Surg.) (a) 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. (b) One of the
strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or
more times.
9. (Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be
lashed to anything.
10. (Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or
downward from the head; the stem. Moore (Encyc. of Music).