Word Meanings - SWALLOW-TAILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.

• Tailored
  of Tailor
• POINTAPPLIQUE
  Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.
• Pointal
  The pistil of a plant.
• Swallower
  One who swallows; also, a glutton.
• Swallowfish
  The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
• Tailoring
  of Tailor
• POINTBLANK
  In a point-blank manner. To sin point-blank against God's word. Fuller.
• Point-blank
  The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.
• Swallowtail
  A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
• Tailoress
  A female tailor.
• POINTDAPPUI
  See under Appui.
• Point d'appui
  See under Appui.
• Swallow-tailed
  Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.
• Tailpiece
  A piece at the end; an appendage.
• POINTDEVICEPOINTDEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.
• Havanese
  Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.

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