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Definition of Tails

1. Noun. Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men.

Definition of Tails

1. Noun. (plural of tail) ¹

2. Noun. (slang) Short for tailcoat. ¹

3. Noun. The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar ¹

4. Verb. (third-person singular of tail) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tails

1. tail [v] - See also: tail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tails

Literary usage of Tails

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"2% in. across, greenish yellow, spotted and streaked with purple, and bearing 3 spreading, greenish, more or less hooked, flattened tails 1 in. long: petals ..."

2. The American Boys Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1890)
"Cat-tails. Cat-tails are of graceful form and make a pretty background. ... A cover of plank, with a round hole in the centre for the cat-tails to come ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"BRISTLE-tails AND SPRING-tails. BY AS PACKARD, JR., MD THE Thysanura, ... in distinction from the Spring-tails, we will first consider. ..."

4. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"Or to take the favourite example: when a coin is thrown it will fall either heads up or tails up; if it is always laid in the hand with the head up, ..."

5. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"fT^HERE is undeniable fascination about a theory which includes -*- within its sweep the time-honored problems of astronomy connected with comets' tails and ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"2% in. across, greenish yellow, spotted and streaked with purple, and bearing 3 spreading, greenish, more or less hooked, flattened tails 1 in. long: petals ..."

7. The American Boys Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1890)
"Cat-tails. Cat-tails are of graceful form and make a pretty background. ... A cover of plank, with a round hole in the centre for the cat-tails to come ..."

8. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"BRISTLE-tails AND SPRING-tails. BY AS PACKARD, JR., MD THE Thysanura, ... in distinction from the Spring-tails, we will first consider. ..."

9. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"Or to take the favourite example: when a coin is thrown it will fall either heads up or tails up; if it is always laid in the hand with the head up, ..."

10. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"fT^HERE is undeniable fascination about a theory which includes -*- within its sweep the time-honored problems of astronomy connected with comets' tails and ..."

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