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tailless, a.|ˈteɪllɪs|
[f. tail n.1 + -less.]
Having no tail; deprived of a tail.
15..Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 88 Elsse our horse and mayres shal be All taylesse at the Cart. 1781Pennant Quadrupeds I. 109 Tailless D[eer]. Ibid. II. 405 Tailless M[armot]. 1837Marryat Dog-fiend xxxvi, He beheld Snarleyyow..tailless. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Orr's Circ. Sc., Org. Nat. I. 189 The frog and other tail-less batrachians. 1874T. Hardy Madding Crowd xxvi, Never did a fragile tailless sentence convey a more perfect meaning. 1887Field 2 July 7/1 Tailless schipperkes. 1893[see next].
Hence ˈtaillessness.
1892Pall Mall G. 24 Feb. 3/1 Our universal taillessness. 1893Westm. Gaz. 22 Sept. 1/2 The little black Schipperkes, the tailless dogs of the Belgian bargees;..their taillessness was a fraud. |