| Pin-tailed |
Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds. |
a. |
| Racket-tailed |
Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. |
a. |
| Rat-tailed |
Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. |
a. |
| Red-tailed |
Having a red tail. |
a. |
| Ring-tailed |
Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. |
a. |
| Ruby-tailed |
Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. |
a. |
| Scissors-tailed |
Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
a. |
| Spine-tailed |
Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
a. |
| Stiff-tailed |
Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. |
a. |
| Stump |
The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. |
n. |
| Stump |
The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom. |
n. |
| Stump |
The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. |
n. |
| Stump |
One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. |
n. |
| Stump |
A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder. |
n. |
| Stump |
A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. |
n. |
| Stump |
To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop. |
v. t. |
| Stump |
To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. |
v. t. |
| Stump |
To challenge; also, to nonplus. |
v. t. |
| Stump |
To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n. |
v. t. |
| Stump |
To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out. |
n. |