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Webster 1913 Edition
Tailor
Tai′lor
,Noun.
1.
One whose occupation is to cut out and make men’s garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Well said, good woman's
tailor
. . . I would thou wert a man's tailor
. Shakespeare
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The mattowacca; – called also
tailor herring
. (b)
The silversides.
3.
(Zool.)
The goldfish.
[Prov. Eng.]
Salt-water tailor
(Zool.)
, the bluefish.
[Local, U. S.]
Bartlett.
– Tailor bird
(Zool.)
, any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to
Orthotomus
, Prinia
, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are Orthotomus longicauda
, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (Orthotomus coronatus
), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.Tai′lor
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tailored
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tailoring
.] To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These
Invent cramped rules.
tailoring
artists for our laysInvent cramped rules.
M. Green.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tailor
TA'ILOR
,Noun.
TA'ILOR
,Verb.
I.