The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca. • An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something. • The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. • The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird. • The tail-end of any object. • The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage. • The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind. • The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part. • The part of a distribution most distant from the mode. • One who surreptitiously follows another. • The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers. • The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y. • The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse. • All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on. • The buttocks or backside. • The penis of a person or animal. • Sexual intercourse. • The stern; the back of the kayak. • A train or company of attendants; a retinue. • The distal tendon of a muscle. • A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies. • A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style. • 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. • One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. • A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. • The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. • A tailing. • The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile. • A tailcoat. • Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”). • The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.