1. subst. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
Most primates have a tail and fangs.
2. subst. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
3. subst. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
4. subst. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
5. subst. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
6. subst. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
7. subst. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
8. subst. One who surreptitiously follows another.
9. subst. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
10. subst. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
11. subst. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
12. subst. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
A sequence(a_n) is said to be frequently0 if every tail of the sequence contains0.
13. subst. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
14. subst. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
15. subst. (slang) Sexual intercourse.
I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
16. subst. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
17. subst. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
18. subst. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
19. subst. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
20. subst. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
21. subst. (surgery) 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.
22. subst. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
23. subst. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
24. subst. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
25. subst. (mining) A tailing.
26. subst. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
27. subst. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
28. v. To follow and observe surreptitiously.
Tail that car!
29. v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
30. v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
This vessel tails downstream.
31. v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
1. subst. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
2. subst. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
3. subst. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
4. subst. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
5. subst. A small pointed object.
6. subst. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
7. subst. (slang) The penis.
8. subst. (Australia) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
9. subst. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
10. subst. The footprint of a hare.
11. subst. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
12. subst. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
13. v. To pierce or puncture slightly.
John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
14. v. (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
15. v. To form by piercing or puncturing.
to prick holes in paper
to prick a pattern for embroidery
to prick the notes of a musical composition
16. v. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
17. v. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
18. v. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
19. v. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
to prick a knife into a board
20. v. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
A sore finger pricks.
21. v. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
22. v. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
23. v. To incite, stimulate, goad.
24. v. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
25. v. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
26. v. To make acidic or pungent.
27. v. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
28. v. To aim at a point or mark.
29. v. (obsolete) Usually as prick up: to dress; to prink.
dork
dork
1. subst. (vulgar, slang) A penis.
2. subst. (pejorative, slang) A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of i
3. subst. (archaic) alternative form of dirk a long dagger
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