tailing
nounRefuse or dross remaining after ore has been processed.
nounThe portion of a tailed beam, brick, or board inside a wall.
nounIn elect.: In telegraphy, especially through cables, the discharge current due to the capacity of the line which continues to flow for an appreciable time after the signaling impulse has been received and modifies the character of the latter.
nounIn automatic teleg., a mark, on the recording-tape of a receiving instrument, which is not caused by the signaling impulse proper but by the discharge current from the line.
nounIn prospecting for coal, the outcrop of a carbon-carrying stratum at the surface of the ground. Called also
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plural The parts or a part of any incoherent or fluid material separated as refuse, or separately treated as inferior in quality or value; leavings; remainders; dregs.
nounIn calico-printing, a fault of impression on some part of the fabric, when the colors are blurred or altogether absent, through some defect in operation or treatment.
nounA reckoning; tally; account.