tailzie

English

Alternative forms

• tailzee
• tailye

Etymology

From French tailler (“to cut”). See tail (“a limitation”). For the z, compare etymology of English Mackenzie.

Noun

tailzie (plural tailzies)

1. (historical, Scots law) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tailzie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Letizia, alitize