Adjective : a ring-tailed monkey. From Dictionary.com.
But everyone was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, which is always a good sign. From Wordnik.com. [EVERYONE has a freaking MySpace account] Reference
I will tell you that it dragged in the middle and, for me, really kind of tailed off at the end. From Wordnik.com. [04 « May « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy] Reference
The poem, in Italian, is an extended or "tailed" sonnet, with a coda of six lines appended to the standard 14. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
The piece of gray matter that lies highest in the cerebral interior is the caudate nucleus ( "tailed" L, because of its shape). From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
McGuffey "tailed" on to the rope and with raucous cries hauled away. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates] Reference
We have consistently 'tailed' behind the endless reformism offered by the ruling class. From Wordnik.com. [Jakarta IMC Newswire] Reference
This did not limit itself to a distich or alternate rhyme called "tailed" or "interlaced," but included the. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
Peninsula and the Philippines, and our explorers have failed to obtain any specimens of the "tailed" people in whose existence many of the. From Wordnik.com. [British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo] Reference
Network reporters tailed him in their rental cars. From Wordnik.com. [You Can Call Him Caught] Reference
A ring-tailed lemur frolicked atop an ambulance. From Wordnik.com. [True Love and the Giraffe] Reference
Still, squeeze squeeze, like a pig-tailed Mr. Whipple. From Wordnik.com. [Hugs] Reference
The woman's pony-tailed head dropped down into her lap. From Wordnik.com. [The Insult of Warlord Reishi] Reference
We pass blue-tailed lizards, their fat bodies warming on the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Self: Light, Dark] Reference
Bravo tailed the man until he learned that the soldier was a Deramos aide. From Wordnik.com. [Deadly Decoy] Reference
"I don't want to lose the thought," says the graying, pony-tailed inventor. From Wordnik.com. [An American innovation in light bulbs, but will manufacturing stay in the U.S.?] Reference
And Yeltsin's communist opposition is convinced that it is tailed and infiltrated too. From Wordnik.com. [Back At Kgb Headquarters] Reference
Another jerked at the rear pockets of his swallow-tailed coat to pick out a thought there. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Street 'suggests that there was at one time a colony of pig-tailed yellow-men in the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
For ten long minutes the Johnston fish-tailed until Evans finally ordered, "Fire torpedoes.". From Wordnik.com. [Dead In the Water] Reference
Regardless of the reason, Willingham has tailed off from his torrid first half of the season. From Wordnik.com. [Slumping Josh Willingham, playing with a sore knee, gets a day off] Reference
Put another way, the classic, fin-tailed American car with a big V-8 under the hood didn't die. From Wordnik.com. [Ford's New Pickup Line: Like My Tough V-6?] Reference
In 2009, 3,179 long-tailed macaques were imported into the U.S., including wild-caught animals. From Wordnik.com. [Mauritius Monkey Capturing: U.S. Exposed As Biggest Importer Of Brutal Industry In New Report] Reference
Clever PBS brought a lemur, a prehensile-tailed porcupine, and a Chihuahua to the tour Thursday. From Wordnik.com. [Cute animals steal the show at PBS's Press Tour] Reference
Honey, I hot tailed up there to see him because he was such a fatherly-type man that you always went when James called. From Wordnik.com. [‘He Kept It Funky’] Reference
When Rigas visited his lawyer in Manhattan last Tuesday, a team of investigators from the U.S. Postal Service tailed him. From Wordnik.com. [Laying Down The Law] Reference
Officials fear the flat-tailed rodents might eventually pollute the city's water supply -- and lose all I public sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Battling Over The Almighty Beaver] Reference
James McBride, manager of New York City's Carlyle Hotel, on the move of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk, to the hotel's roof. From Wordnik.com. [PERSPECTIVES] Reference
He was driving his motorcycle, tailed by Puetz in an unmarked car, when he stopped at a light, turned his head -- and spat. From Wordnik.com. [The Dna Detectives] Reference
Others say the surveillance team may have stuck out on the subway, making an already wary Zazi realize he was being tailed. From Wordnik.com. [Najibullah Zazi and the Missing 40 Minutes] Reference
All that, plus I was tailed several hours a day for the Comic-Con documentary that Morgan "Super Size Me" Spurlock is doing. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Riffs Interview: New Eisner winner JOHN LAYMAN relishes the success of 'CHEW'] Reference
Cathay's revenues are tilted toward first - and business-class travelers, which had tailed off sharply as corporate travel dwindled. From Wordnik.com. [Cathay Boss Charts Recovery] Reference
Trucks piled high with humanitarian supplies are tailed by four-wheel-drive Pajeros and Prados sporting NGO logos on fluttering flags. From Wordnik.com. [WORSE THAN WAR] Reference
A few minutes later, an Audi pulls up in front of the five-story, red-brick building and a casually dressed, pony-tailed blond alights. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News Plagiarism? Kate Winslet Article Closely Resembles Daily Mail Article] Reference
They look out over a vista of rock walls, green scrub and a rutted track where shepherds sometimes drive their herds of fat-tailed sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Facing A Long, Cold War] Reference
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