tailpiece

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tail=piece

CIDE DICTIONARY

tailpiece, n. 

•  A piece at the end; an appendage.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.  [1913 Webster]
•  An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.  Savage.  [1913 Webster]
•  A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.  [1913 Webster]
•  A piece for transmitting motion from the hub of a lock to the latch bolt.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tailpiece, n.
1 an appendage at the rear of anything.
2 the final part of a thing.
3 a decoration in a blank space at the end of a chapter etc. in a book.
4 a piece of wood to which the strings of some musical instruments are attached at their lower ends.

THESAURUS

tailpiece

accession, accessory, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, afterpart, afterpiece, anacrusis, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, back, back door, back seat, back side, bass passage, behind, bourdon, breech, bridge, brush, burden, cadence, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, chorus, coda, complement, concomitant, continuation, corollary, cue, development, division, dock, exposition, extension, extrapolation, fantail, figure, fixture, folderol, harmonic close, heel, hind end, hind part, hindhead, increase, increment, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, measure, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, occiput, offshoot, ornament, part, passage, pendant, period, phrase, pigtail, posterior, postern, queue, rattail, rear, rear end, rearward, refrain, reinforcement, resolution, response, reverse, ritornello, section, side effect, side issue, stanza, statement, stern, strain, stub, supplement, tab, tag, tail, tail end, trail, trailer, train, tutti, tutti passage, undergirding, variation, verse, wake

ROGET THESAURUS

tailpiece

Engraving

N engraving, chalcography, line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving, dry point, bur, etching, aquatinta, chiseling, plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving, xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph, impression, print, engraving, plate, steelplate, copperplate, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint, cut, woodcut, stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype, graver, burin, etching point, style, plate, stone, wood block, negative, die, punch, stamp, printing, plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing, type printing, three-color process, illustration, illumination, half tone, photogravure, vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece, lapidary, lapidarian, insculptured, engraved, lapidary, sculpsit, imprimit.