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

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

Relating to, or like, a delta.

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.

One who details.

To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor.

A writ. See Detinue.

One who detains.

Detention. [R.] Blackstone.

To free from entailment.

To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry. "Distained with dirt and blood." Spenser. [She] hath . . . distained her honorable blood. Spenser. The worthiness of praise distains his worth. Shak.

A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.

A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a s…

Down the stairs; to a lower floor. -- a.

A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.

The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus).

To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.