[treyl] 
| 1. | to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind. |
| 2. | to bring or have floating after itself or oneself: a racing car trailing clouds of dust. |
| 3. | to follow the track, trail, or scent of; track. |
| 4. | to follow along behind (another), as in a race. |
| 5. | to mark out, as a track. |
| 6. | to tread down or make a path through (grass or the like). |
| 7. | to draw out, as speech; protract. |
| 8. | Ceramics. to pour (slip) on a biscuit so as to produce a pattern. |
| 9. | to be drawn or dragged along the ground or some other surface, as when hanging from something moving: Her long bridal gown trailed across the floor. |
| 10. | to hang down loosely from something. |
| 11. | to stream from or float after something moving, as dust, smoke, and sparks do. |
| 12. | to follow as if drawn along. |
| 13. | to fish by trailing a line from a moving boat; troll. |
| 14. | to go slowly, lazily, or wearily along. |
| 15. | to pass or extend in a straggling line. |
| 16. | to change gradually or wander from a course, so as to become weak, ineffectual, etc. (usually fol. by off or away): Her voice trailed off into silence. |
| 17. | to arrive or be last: He finally trailed in at 10 o'clock. |
| 18. | to be losing in a contest: The home team was trailing 20 to 15. |
| 19. | to creep or crawl, as a serpent. |
| 20. | to follow a track or scent, as of game. |
| 21. | (of a plant) to extend itself in growth along the ground rather than taking root or clinging by tendrils, etc. |
| 22. | a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals. |
| 23. | the track, scent, or the like, left by an animal, person, or thing, esp. as followed by a hunter, hound, or other pursuer. |
| 24. | something that is trailed or that trails behind, as the train of a skirt or robe. |
| 25. | a stream of dust, smoke, light, people, vehicles, etc., behind something moving. |
| 26. | Artillery. the part of a gun carriage that rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. |
| 27. | Architecture. a running vine, leaf, or tendril ornament, as in a Gothic molding. |
| 28. | trail arms, Military.
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