Tailed
[teɪld] or [teld]
Definition
(adj.) having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination .
Typed by Hector--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
Typist: Nathaniel
Examples
- Time passed Thomas on in the mill, while his father was thinking about it, and there he stood in a long-tailed coat and a stiff shirt-collar. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Was it some one who had watched the swift, sure-footed spring of a bushy-tailed squirrel from branch to branch? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- All I want to say is that my daughter'--he tailed off into silence, overcome by futility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He began with the history of Galvanism, de tailed the successive discoveries, and described the different methods of accumulating influence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The students were shouting half-articulated words that tailed off in helpless explosions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But if there did happen to come along a highly attractive individual of sufficient means--well--' she tailed off ironically. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Nathaniel