Wedge-tailed: alternatives and connections

A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.

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A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…

Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate;…

insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures a…

The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cut…

Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent.

A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essa…

A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.

Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.

A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and…