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A Chinese governor general; a tsung tu (which see).

rd. [Slang, Eng.] It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail. Thackeray.

ise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores contain bring forth. Milton.

Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.

A container.

One who, or that which, contains.

That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [Obs.] The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.

Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. [Obs.] A copatain hat made on a Flemish block. Gascoigne.

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). [Obs.] At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.

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.

A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. [Obs.] Shak. Behind the curtain, in concealment; in secret. -- Curtain lecture, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffer…

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