Word Meanings - TAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. Estate in tail, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate tail. Blackstone.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TAIL)

• Rear
• Back
• end
• tail
• Retinue
• Retainers
• attendant
• suite
• pomp
• followers
• satellites
• escort
• cortege

Related words: (words related to TAIL)

• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• RETINUE
  The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite. Others of your insolent retinue. Shak. What followers, what retinue canst thou gain Milton. To have at one's retinue, to keep or employ as a
• CORTEGE
  A train of attendants; a procession.
• ESCORT
  scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L. ex out, quite + corrigere 1. A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners
• SUITE
  One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect
• JESUITESS
  One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.
• JESUITED
  Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits. Milton.