Trailing: alternatives and connections

To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.

To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting…

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

To trail; to draggle.

An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the cou…

To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or in…

The track or trail of an animal.

To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he pass…

Fitted for trail or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.

During; as, pending the trail.

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.

To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.

To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.