To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
To print or broadcast in the media.
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
To be a candidate in an election.
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
To control or manage, be in charge of.
To smuggle (illegal goods).
To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
To make run in a race.
To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
To cause to move quickly or lightly.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
To speedrun.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
To move or spread quickly.
To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
To make a machine operate.
To become liquid; to melt.
To make something extend in space.
Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
To be presented in the media.
Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
To cost a large amount of money.
Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
Of a liquid, to flow.
To compete in a race.
Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
To make run in an election.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To have growth or development.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To flee from a danger or towards help.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
To follow and observe surreptitiously.
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
To pull or draw by the tail.
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
Sexual intercourse.
Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
The penis of a person or animal.
A tailing.
The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
The distal tendon of a muscle.
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
One who surreptitiously follows another.
The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
The stern; the back of the kayak.
The buttocks or backside.
An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.