Word Meanings - GILTTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

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• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• TAILRACE
  The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. (more info) 1. See Race, n., 6.
• TAILORING
  The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
• YELLOW
  1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome
• TAILOR
  The goldfish. Salt-water tailor , the bluefish. Bartlett. -- Tailor bird , any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which
• TAILBOARD
  The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
• TAILED
  Having a tail; having a tail or tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc. Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.
• YELLOWBILL
  The American scoter.
• TAIL-BAY
  One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay. 2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
• YELLOWWOOD
  The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash ; the Australian Flindersia
• TAILAGE
  See TALLAGE
• YELLOWHAMMER
  A common European finch . The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and
• TAIL
  1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and was called on the next Parliament. Fuller. 2. To
• TAILORESS
  A female tailor.
• YELLOWLEGS
  Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
• TAILLE
  Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects. The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock
• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• RAT-TAILED
  Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. Rat-tailed larva , the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See Eristalis. -- Rat-tailed serpent , the fer-de-lance. -- Rat-tailed shrew , the musk shrew.
• ENTAIL
  incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or 1. That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule
• GILTTAIL
  A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
• CAT O' NINE TAILS
  See CAT
• SCISSORSTAIL
  A tyrant flycatcher of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
• LION'S TAIL
  A genus of labiate plants ; -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
• FORKTAIL
  One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• BOAT-TAIL
  A large grackle or blackbird , found in the Southern United States.
• SPINE-TAILED
  Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
• ROUGHTAIL
  Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.
• FOXTAIL
  The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria. (more info) 1. The tail or brush of a fox.
• WIRE-TAILED
  Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.
• RETAIL
  The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.