Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRAIL, n.

1. Track followed by the hunter; scent left on the ground by the animal pursued. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry. Shak.
2. Any thing drawn to length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke. Dryden. When lightning shoots in glitt'ring trails along. Rowe.
3. Any thing drawn behind in long undulations; a train. And drew behinds radiant trail of hair. Pope.
4. The entrails of a fowl; applied sometimes to those of sheep. Smollet. Trail-boards, in ship-building, a term for the carved work between the cheeks of the head, at the heel of the figure. Cyc.