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long-tailed, a.
1. a. Having a long tail.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxii. 17 Ane lang taild beist and grit with all. 1567Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 202 Thair land taillit gowne. 1718Prior Solomon i. 178 The crested snake, and long-tailed crocodile. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, The striped waistcoat, long-tailed coat, and low top-boots. 1896Peterson Mag. Jan. 62/1, I shall have it printed in the old-fashioned way, long-tailed s and all. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 198 Long-tailed Adooma canoes.
b. spec. in names of animals.
1752J. Hill Hist. Animals 544 The long-tailed Felis, with pencilled ears. 1766Pennant Zool. (1776) II. 507 Long tailed Duck. 1774G. White Selborne xli. 106 The delicate long-tailed titmouse. 1831A. Wilson & Bonaparte Amer. Ornith. III. 233 Anas glacialis..Long-tailed duck. 1868Wood Homes without H. xiii. 232 Long-tailed Humming Bird (Trochilus polytmus). 1899Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 1/3 Another beautiful butterfly—the long-tailed blue.
2. Of words: Having a long termination. † Also applied to a long-winded speech. jocular.
1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 16 Thir lang tailit vordis, conturbabuntur,..innumerabilibus. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Spalding Club 1851) II. 262 It is said this long taillit supplicatioun wes weill hard of by the bretheren of the general assembly. 1767A. Campbell Lexiph. (1774) 87 Hard long-tailed words drawn from the Greek and Latin languages. 1817J. H. Frere K. Arthur i. vi, With long-tailed words in osity and ation. 1854M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine 20 She was so heartily tired of its long tailed verbs. 1902Pall Mall G. 4 Jan. 6/3 Would not the combination—Demont-Breton-Worms-Baretta—be a little long-tailed, say, for a visiting card?
3. long-tailed pair Electronics, a pair of identical valves (or transistors) with their cathodes (or emitters) connected together to a large resistor and usu. with their anodes (or collectors) connected to equal loads. Cf. long-tail pair.
1947Electronic Engin. XIX. 272/1 The type of circuit used is based on what is generally referred to as the ‘long-tailed pair’ and owes its inception to the late A. D. Blumlein. 1970J. Shepherd et al. Higher Electr. Engin. (ed. 2) xxii. 713 Drift [in a d.c. amplifier] cannot be reduced by straightforward feedback since this reduces the gain in proportion; the technique of compensation may however be employed. In this method drift in one part of a circuit is balanced against drift in another part. The long-tailed or emitter-coupled pair circuit..is an example. |