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An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

Having the tail cropped.

A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.

Dovetail.

United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.

To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. Shak. Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. Macualay.

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 short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting. Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Shak.…

One who curtails.

The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. Bancroft.

Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. "Dag- tailed sheep." Bp. Hall.

A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.

Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.

Daily occurence. [R.]

Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11. Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands. Macaulay.

To cause fail. [Obs.]

Failure; miscarriage. [Obs.] Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.

Failure. [Obs.] Barrow.

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner.

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

one of the small parts; a particular; an item; - - used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. The details of the campaign in Italy. Motley.