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TAILED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination
Classified under:
Similar:
caudate; caudated (having a tail or taillike appendage)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb tail
Context examples:
This note, prettily written on scented paper, was a great contrast to the next, which was scribbled on a big sheet of thin foreign paper, ornamented with blots and all manner of flourishes and curly-tailed letters.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I wear a gold watch and chain, a ring upon my little finger, and a long-tailed coat; and I use a great deal of bear's grease—which, taken in conjunction with the ring, looks bad.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I'll get admitted there, and I'll stir up mutiny; and you, three-tailed bashaw as you are, sir, shall in a trice find yourself fettered amongst our hands: nor will I, for one, consent to cut your bonds till you have signed a charter, the most liberal that despot ever yet conferred.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Silver had two guns slung about him—one before and one behind—besides the great cutlass at his waist and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In a new study, the researchers reveal a new generation of two-tailed bots powered by skeletal muscle tissue stimulated by on-board motor neurons.
(Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves, National Science Foundation)
My uncle had just set forth, as was his custom of an evening, clad in his green riding-frock, his plate buttons, his Cordovan boots, and his round hat, to show himself upon his crop-tailed tit in the Mall.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was dreadful, but she would have done it if the flock of draggle-tailed sparrows on the hedge had been human beings, for she was very far gone indeed, and quite regardless of everything but her own happiness.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
To me it was as if I had been wafted to a fairy world, and my uncle might have been some benevolent enchanter in a high-collared, long-tailed coat, who was guiding me about in it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
