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Belonging to the Equisetaceæ, or Horsetail family.

A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.

A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvæ) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.

and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.

A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliæetus albicilla).

ledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipiduræ, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.

body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.

A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness. Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.

sting. Fall herring (Zoöl.), a herring of the Atlantic (Clupea mediocris); -- also called tailor herring, and hickory shad. -- To try a fall, to try a bout at wrestling. Shak.

Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.

The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

Fit to be used or tailed, as land. [R.] R. Trumbull. Fea"si*ble*ness, n. --Fea"si*bly, adv.

us.[Colloq.] -- To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed.

nditions or limits. Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Shak. -- Fee tail (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. Burill.

The science of raising and expending the public revenue. "Versed in the details of finance." Macaulay.

ticular; fastidious. "Finical taste." Wordsworth. The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. Hazlitt.

The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

A woman who retails fish.

to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc. The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes. Is. xliv. 13.