Trail
TRAIL, verb transitive [Latin traho.]
1. To hunt by the track. [See the Norman, supra.]
2. To draw along the ground. trail your pikes.
And hung his head, and trail'd his legs along.
They shall not trail me through the streets
That long behind he trails his pompous robe.
3. To lower; as, to trail arms.
4. In America, to tread down gras by walking through; to lay flat; as, to trail grass.
TRAIL, verb intransitive To be drawn out in length.
When his brother saw the red blood trail
TRAIL, noun Track followed by the hunter; scent left on the ground by the animal pursued.
How cheerfully on the false trail they cry.
1. Any thing drawn to length; as the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
When lightning shoots in glitt'ring trails along.
2. Any thing drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
3. The entrails of a fowl; applied sometimes to those of sheep.
boards, in ship-building, a term for the craved work between the cheeks of the head, at the heel of the figure.