▪ I. tailed, a. and ppl. a.1
(teɪld)
Also 4–5 ytailed.
[f. tail n.1 and v.1 + -ed.]
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 J. P. 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 unrimed or riming 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. |
▪ II. tailed, ppl. a.2
(teɪld)
[f. tail v.2 + -ed1.]
† 1. Cut; esp. cut to a special shape or size.
| c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 55 Take Roysonys of coraunce..& taylid Datys y-kyt a-long. a 1552 Leland Itin. V. lf. 66 M{supr}. Brainton..dyd fetch much tayled Stone there toward his buildinges. |
2. Law. Of lands and tenements: Granted, settled, or held in tail (see tail v.2 5); = entailed. Obs. or arch.
| 1430–31 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 378/1 Toward eny tailled land. c 1475 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 502, I..condempne..alle thy londes taylede and not taylede to be applyede to the use of the kynge for ever. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 18 b, Another forme of landes tayled with a remayndre ouer. 1593 Calr. Laing Charters (1899) 309 Outwith the teylit land and toftis presentlie occupiit. |