<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.</li><li>to bring or have floating after itself or oneself: a racing car trailing clouds of dust.</li><li>to follow the track, trail, or scent of; track.</li><li>to follow along behind (another), as in a race.</li><li>to mark out, as a track.</li><li>to tread down or make a path through (grass or the like).</li><li>to draw out, as speech; protract.</li><li>to pour (slip) on a biscuit so as to produce a pattern.</li><li>(used without object) 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.</li><li>to hang down loosely from something.</li><li>to stream from or float after something moving, as dust, smoke, and sparks do.</li><li>to follow as if drawn along.</li><li>to fish by trailing a line from a moving boat; troll.</li><li>to go slowly, lazily, or wearily along.</li><li>to pass or extend in a straggling line.</li><li>to change gradually or wander from a course, so as to become weak, ineffectual, etc. (usually followed by off or away): Her voice trailed off into silence.</li><li>to arrive or be last: He finally trailed in at 10 o'clock.</li><li>to be losing in a contest: The home team was trailing 20 to 15.</li><li>to creep or crawl, as a serpent.</li><li>(of a plant) to extend itself in growth along the ground rather than taking root or clinging by tendrils, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.</li><li>the track, scent, or the like, left by an animal, person, or thing, especially as followed by a hunter, hound, or other pursuer.</li><li>something that is trailed or that trails behind, as the train of a skirt or robe.</li><li>a stream of dust, smoke, light, people, vehicles, etc., behind something moving.</li><li>Artillery: the part of a gun carriage that rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered.</li><li>Architecture: a running vine, leaf, or tendril ornament, as in a Gothic molding.</li></ul>