(v. t.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
(v. t.) To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.
(v. t.) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
(v. i.) To be drawn out in length; to follow after.
(v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
(n.) A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.
(n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.
(n.) Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
(n.) Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
(n.) Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.
(n.) A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.
(n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
(n.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
(n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(2) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(3) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(4) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(5) The woman Hollande describes as the "love of his life" has been present on the campaign trail over the past few weeks, but always behind him, or on the sidelines.
(6) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
(7) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(8) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
(9) Calls to defund the organisation have proliferated among Republicans in Congress and on the 2016 presidential campaign trail .
(10) But while he may remain fairly invisible on the campaign trail for a while longer, his presence is already being felt behind closed doors.
(11) The Tories are in first place, on 34%, while Labour trails in third on 28%.
(12) The trailing edge of the flagellum, which is thickly covered by scales and was assumed until now to lack receptors, contains both mechanosensitive and contact chemoreceptors.
(13) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(14) As was the case against Chelsea's two buses a fortnight ago, Liverpool struggled to find solutions against the visitors' 5-4-1 formation, trailed to Martin Skrtel's fourth own goal in one season, a Premier League record, and could have been further behind when Yoan Gouffran raced through only to be denied by Simon Mignolet.
(15) Debenhams said it also trailed behind its rivals in terms of convenience because it lacked a competitive range of premium delivery options.
(16) In a speech focused on national security, Liam Fox , who is trailing his fellow Tory leadership candidates in terms of support from MPs, hinted that he had doubts that a candidate without significant experience could handle the job.
(17) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
(18) Simon Ingram, editor of hillwalking magazine Trail ( livefortheoutdoors.com)
(19) Do one-day or shorter sections of the route between Les Houches and Argentière, or tackle the Tour du Mont Blanc, a strenuous 250km trail that takes in the most naturally dramatic slices of Switzerland, France and Italy.
(20) Its main rival, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Eurosceptic nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), trailed on 30%.
Wagtail
Definition:
(n.) Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yersinia enterocolitica was isolated from three specimens of the pied wagtail, one specimen of the reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) and one specimen of the rustic bunting (Emberiza rustica).
(2) Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was isolated from three specimens of two species of birds, the black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) and pied wagtail (Motacilla alba), of 528 specimens of birds examined from coastal regions in Japan.
(3) The offering of a few crumbs is appreciated by two grey wagtails, but our search continues.
(4) Yersinia intermedia was isolated from one specimen of the pied wagtail.
(5) There are well-fed seagulls wheeling above and wagtails dipping their beaks where the rippled water recedes.