Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRAIL-ING
TRAIL-ING, ppr.
Hunting by the track; drawing on the ground; treading down; laying flat; bringing to a low position; drawing out in length. Since the flames pursu'd the trailing smoke. Dryden. Swift men of foot whose broad-set backs their trailing hair did hide. Chapman.
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