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Ta(i)lit, adj. Also: tailed, taillit, -et, taylid, -yd, -ed, tayllit, -yt, talyt, talȝeit. [ME and e.m.E. tailede (1297), tayled (Manning), tailed (1413); Tail n.] Having a tail or extremity, in various applications.See also Clovin ppl. adj., Cors-taile adj., Cros-taillit adj., Cut-tail(l)it adj., Dow-talit adj., Lang-tail(l)it adj.(1) c1420 Wynt. i 758.
Ane … best … That … has a gret tusk as a bare, And taylyd [C. tayllyt] as elephawntys are ?a1501 Aberd. Reg. Sasines I 774.
Talyt tyk have at thé now! 1594 Black Bk. Taymouth 299.
Ane litill gray meir … quhyt taillit ?1549 Monro W. Isles (1961) 77.
Thai are fairer and greater scheip thair and langer taillit than thair is in ony uther ile thairabout(2) 1570 Canongate Ct. Bk. 207.
Ane goun of blak armesie talfetie thre talit 1643 Household Bk. M. Stewart 58.
Ane rid four tayllit coat(3) 1562 Coll. Rebus Alban. 144.
Tua dosane of lang talit buttonis 1571 Treas. Acc. MS 89.
Ane dosane … lang braid taillet buttonis 1575 Edinb. Test. III 362a.
xij tailit collaris of craip 1599 Treas. Acc. MS 44b.
Lang taylid buttonis to the mandallis of thair coittis 1619 Edinb. Test. MS 263b.
Threttie pair of talȝeit heidit gluifis 1652 Thanes of Cawdor 310.
A long tayled buttone 12 s.(4) c1616 Hume Orthog. 34.
A perfect distinction closes a perfect sense, and is marked with a round punct, thus. or a tailed punct, thus? … The round punct concludes an assertion … The tailed punct concludes an interrogation