'tails' definitions:

Definition of 'tails'

noun

Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men [syn: dress suit, full dress, tailcoat, tail coat, tails, white tie, white tie and tails]

Definition of 'tails'

From: GCIDE

Tailing \Tail"ing\, n.
1. (Arch.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
2. (Surg.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a) . [1913 Webster]
3. Sexual intercourse. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
4. pl. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff. [1913 Webster]
5. pl. (Mining) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. --Pryce. [1913 Webster]
6. (Elec.) A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Words containing 'tails'

Tail,
Tail on,
Tailed,
Tailing,
To tail in,
To tail on,
Box tail,
Dragon's tail,
Estate in tail,
Fee tail,
Head or tail,
Heads or tails,
Lion's tail,
Lizard's tail,
Mill tail,
Otter Tail,
Scansorial tail,
Scorpion's tail,
Tail beam,
Tail coverts,
Tail end,
Tail joist,
Tail of a comet,
Tail of a gale,
Tail of a lock,
Tail of the trenches,
Tail spindle,
Tail stock,
To stave and tail,
To turn tail,
burro's tail,
donkey's tail,
estate tail,
horizontal tail,
horse's tail,
kite tail,
lamb's tail,
lobster tail,
mare's tail,
piece of tail,
sprig tail,
tail assembly,
tail bone,
tail coat,
tail feather,
tail fin,
tail gate,
tail gunner,
tail lamp,
tail rotor,
tail wind,
tailed frog,
tailed toad,
turn tail,
under tail coverts,
vertical tail,
white tail,
Boat-tail,
Cat's-tail,
Cat-tail,
Crop-tailed,
Cross-tail,
Dag-tailed,
Daggle-tail,
Daggle-tailed,
Drabble-tail,
Draggle-tail,
Draggle-tailed,
Fan-tailed,
Fish-tail,
Fork-tailed,
Hare's-tail,
Mare's-tail,
Neither head nor tail,
Otter Tail County,
Otter Tail, MN,
Pin-tailed,
Racket-tail,
Racket-tailed,
Rat-tail,
Rat-tailed,
Red-tailed,
Ring-tailed,
Ruby-tailed,
Scissors-tailed,
Spine-tailed,
Split-tail,
Stiff-tailed,
Stump-tailed,
Swallow-tailed,
Tail-bay,
Tail-water,
Teeter-tail,
Triple-tail,
Wedge-tailed,
Wire-tailed,
fee-tail,
high-tail,
kitten-tails,
lizard's-tail,
lyre-tail,
naked-tailed,
pen-tail,
piket-tail,
scaly-tailed,
scissor-tailed,
short-tailed,
spike-tail,
spreet-tail,
square-tailed,
swingle-tail,
tail-flower,
tail-shaped,
upper tail coverts,
white tie and tails,
Cat o' nine tails,
Dog's-tail grass,
Fish-tail burner,
Fish-tail propeller,
Fork-tailed flycatcher,
Fork-tailed gull,
Fork-tailed kite,
Hare's-tail grass,
Otter Tail County, MN,
Rat-tailed larva,
Rat-tailed radish,
Rat-tailed serpent,
Rat-tailed shrew,
Red-tailed hawk,
Ring-tailed cat,
Ring-tailed eagle,
Spine-tailed swift,
Squirrel-tail grass,
Stump-tailed lizard,
Swallow-tailed duck,
Swallow-tailed gull,
Swallow-tailed hawk,
Swallow-tailed kite,
Swallow-tailed moth,
Wedge-tailed eagle,
Wedge-tailed gull,
Yellow-tailed shad,
band-tail pigeon,
band-tailed pigeon,
black-tailed deer,
brown-tail moth,
brush-tail porcupine,
brush-tailed phalanger,
brush-tailed phascogale,
brush-tailed porcupine,
cat's-tail grass,
four-tailed bandage,
free-tailed bat,
gold-tail moth,
green-tailed towhee,
gridiron-tailed lizard,
hair-tailed mole,
lesser cat-tail,
lion-tailed baboon,
lizard's-tail family,
long-tailed cat,
long-tailed porcupine,
long-tailed weasel,
nail-tailed kangaroo,
nail-tailed wallaby,
pin-tailed duck,
pin-tailed grouse,
pin-tailed sandgrouse,
rat's-tail cactus,
rat-tail file,
rat-tail fish,
red-tailed buzzard,
ring-tailed lemur,
round-tailed muskrat,
sharp-tailed grouse,
short-tailed shrew,
slender-tailed meerkat,
swallow-tailed coat,
white-tailed deer,
white-tailed jackrabbit,
white-tailed kite,
zebra-tailed lizard,
meadow cat's-tail grass,
pen-tailed tree shrew,
white-tailed sea eagle,
cat-o'-nine-tails