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The goldfish.
To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
of Tailor
A female tailor.
of Tailor
The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
A piece at the end; an appendage.
One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.
An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
See Race, n., 6.
The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.