To flinch or draw back.
To begin.
To awaken suddenly.
To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
To break away, to come loose.
To put into play.
To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
To set in motion.
To have its origin (at), begin.
To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
To jerk suddenly in surprise.
To start one's periods (menstruation).
To begin an activity.
To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
A handle, especially that of a plough.
A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
The beginning of an activity.
An instance of starting.
A sudden involuntary movement.
To pull or draw by the tail.
To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
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.
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.
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.