1. Having, or furnished with, a tail or tails; in Zool. and Bot. = CAUDATE. Often in parasynthetic comb., as long-tailed, white-tailed, etc.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8821. Men iseie iwis Þe tailede sterre, þat gret bodiinge is.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 158. What haf I to do with Inglis tayled kyng?
a. 1400. R. Glouc.’s Chron. (Rolls), App. T. 10. Ȝute libbeþ of þe kunde ytailed maniȝe so.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton), I. xx. (1859), 20. Thenne answered this tailed worm.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., V. xii. (1636), 556. He is eared and tailed like a Rat.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), I. 352. Panthers are not after the same manner tailed.
1767. Gooch, Treat. Wounds, I. 147. That called the tailed-bandage, used in compound fractures.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, v. [A] blue baize tailed coat.
1890. Julia Ballard, Among Moths, 17. The hinder wings tailed.
† b. Of cattle: TAGGED 3. Obs.
1539. Will H. Myrth of Puriton, Somerset, 26 Oct. (MS.). To John Hore a taylyd heffer.
1543. Will J. Popyll, Shapwick, Som., 9 Jan. ij steyres a taylyd & a sterryd.
† c. Of malt: Containing the tails. Obs.
1742. Lond. & Country Brewer, I. (ed. 4), 75. This Caution against using tailed or dusty Malt.
d. Tailed rime (rarely tail-rime), rendering of F. rime couée, med.L. rithmus caudātus (see COUWEE), applied to a couplet, triplet, or stanza with a tail, tag, or additional short line, either unrhymed or rhyming with another tag further on.
1890. Cent. Dict., s. v. Rime1, Tailed rime.
1893. Traill, Soc. Eng., I. iv. 448. [Verses] in rime couée. Note, Or tail-rime [ed. 1898 (also called tailed-rime)]: a stanza where some lines, usually the third and sixth, are shorter (e.g. Chaucer’s Rime of Sir Thopas).
2. ppl. a. Deprived of the tail or tails.
1550. Proclam. Edw. VI., 20 Oct. Wheate … of the meanest sorte, not cleane or tailed.
1844. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 8. Topped and tailed turnips.
