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noun

Foxtail n.

The tail or brush of a fox.

(Bot.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.

(Metal.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.

Foxtail saw, a dovetail saw.

Foxtail wedging. See Fox wedge, under Fox.

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Etymology of 'Foxtail'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foxtail" Quotes from Famous Books

... 2. Meadow Foxtail.—Early like the preceding, but more productive and more nutritious. It is one of the five or six kinds usually sown together in English pastures; best ...

— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden

... open all greeted the young man. Loosening his snow-shoes, he flung them on the step and came in, a foxtail ...

— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller

... themselves on the sloping driveway before the barn doors. Asher was chewing the tender joint of a spear of foxtail grass, and Champers ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

Words linked to "Foxtail" : Italian millet, green bristlegrass, rough bristlegrass, giant foxtail, Hungarian grass, bottle-grass, Setaria glauca, foxtail millet, yellow bristlegrass, glaucous bristlegrass, green foxtail, foxtail orchid, Setaria viridis, foxtail barley, foxtail grass, bristlegrass