Adjective : Several legislative items must be dropped from the current bobtail session of Congress. From Dictionary.com.
"bobtailed" -- to be discharged or to be given a discharge without honor. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of the Rookies] Reference
Sometimes fur hats, bobtailed coats, or dirty panamas. From Wordnik.com. [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference
But then this slightly bobtailed list became the official list. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
They fitted reasonably well, since a war wound has left me bobtailed. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
I came home with three cats, two bobtailed sisters and a black-and-white. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirty Life] Reference
Tom was a big, black, bobtailed cat eleven years old who had lived with Ed since he was. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Mouse] Reference
Tsarevo-Zaymishche he rode his light bay bobtailed ambler accompanied by his Guards, his bodyguard, his pages, and aides-de-camp. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
And as the bobtailed, long-necked chestnut, trying to get his head, jerked the left hand, covered by a thick dogskin glove, the doctor raised his voice over the hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Foster] Reference
It's not as it was in the old days when the man who could tell the most yarns sold the most goods; the old fashioned traveling man is as much behind the times as a bobtailed street car. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
A few weeks later, this wolf killed 3 more sheep and bobtailed a cow in the same area. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
I knew a farmer in New York who had a very large bobtailed churn-dog by the name of Cuff. From Wordnik.com. [Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers] Reference
Jim jumped off the bobtailed train that obligingly stopped for him at a lone shed in the wide desert. From Wordnik.com. [Still Jim] Reference
These bobtailed cats are actually starving and ready to enter any kind of a trap or snare that carries a bait. From Wordnik.com. [The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake] Reference
A few years ago almost all work dogs in the interior were bobtailed; now the plumes wave over the teams again. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
Hawkeye unrolled his coat and turned out a bobtailed young Robin in the speckled plumage, shot through the body. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned] Reference
Tedda Gabler, the bobtailed mare who throws up the dirt with her big hooves exactly as a tedder throws hay, have her head. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
This is the bobtailed, short-eared, dark gray mouse that is found making runs in the thick grass, especially in low places. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Animals at Home] Reference
The little bobtailed Coyote had had rare advantages of training just where the others were lacking: she knew the devices of man. From Wordnik.com. [Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted] Reference
One in a black uniform with white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who was in a white uniform rode a black one. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
The audibly inherent texas protuberance sorbonne and win ectomorph as it inertia a hybrid for the bobtailed socioeconomic villain merriment. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
"Frowzy huzzies! not worth the keeping, or I would not have sent them; fit only for the bobtailed militia of New England!" exclaimed La Corne. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
A chance to catch a glimpse of a Canada lynx, my favorite bobtailed wildcat, was worth the risky journey through these treacherous Rocky Mountain ranges. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
On the march from Vyazma to Tsarevo-Zaymishche he rode his light bay bobtailed ambler accompanied by his Guards, his bodyguard, his pages, and aides-de-camp. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
All night, the blackness cherishes its splendid gifts - the spotted owl, the thin and hungry wolves, white-skinned birches where bobtailed deer graze on clover. From Wordnik.com. [TaKinG thE BriM_ TooK thE BrOoM_] Reference
American movement, a sort of bobtailed scheme of thought, excellently fitted for the man on the street, who naturally hates theory and wants cash returns immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
It was a bobtailed, rawboned animal, but, as Tom complacently remarked to Alida, "He can pass about anything on the road" -- a boast that he let no chance escape of verifying. From Wordnik.com. [He Fell in Love with His Wife] Reference
Ixion’s wheel, lashing the crop-eared, bobtailed cur that gives it motion. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
We had a bobtailed horse in Durham. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George Watts Hill, January 30, 1986. Interview C-0047. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
"That he are, Coyote 'Pash, the very niggurs that bobtailed this child's ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
Olympics are no place for the ragtag, bobtailed armies which have recognized that T20 offers them a unique opportunity to stay in the limelight. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Now on my bobtailed mule I jog at ease. From Wordnik.com. [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference
And a big bull-frog, and a bobtailed dog. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
But mount my bobtailed mule, my wallets tied. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
Here's where you prove to Gib whether you're a man -- thump -- or a mouse -- thump -- or a-- thump, thump -- bobtailed -- thump -- rat. ". From Wordnik.com. [Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates] Reference
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