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1.
Limitation; abridgment.
Source : opted (155407)  - auto
 
2.
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
Source : opted (155408)  - auto
 
3.
The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
Source : opted (155409)  - auto
 
4.
Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Source : opted (155410)  - auto
 
5.
Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
Source : opted (155411)  - auto
 
6.
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
Source : opted (155412)  - auto
 
7.
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.
Source : opted (155413)  - auto
 
8.
The distal tendon of a muscle.
Source : opted (155414)  - auto
 
9.
A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
Source : opted (155415)  - auto
 
10.
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.
Source : opted (155416)  - auto
 

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