(cricket) The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.

(cricket, baseball, softball) The sequence in which a side's batsmen go in to bat.

A Northern Ireland religious and political organisation, loyal to the British crown and with strong anti-Catholicism policies.

(taxonomy) A taxonomic category below suborder and above superfamily.

The business to be done by a body (such as a legislature) on a particular day; an agenda. / The most significant aspect of something; what is necessary or appropriate.

(idiomatic) Out of normal sequence. / (idiomatic) Not functioning properly. / (idiomatic) Inappropriate or unsuitable.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see doctor, -'s, orders. / (Britain, bingo) The number nine.

(originally US, idiomatic) A big job; a difficult challenge.

(Britain) An official order forbidding press or broadcast discussion of a specified subject; a public interest immunity certificate.

(set theory) An object containing exactly two elements in a fixed order, so that, when the elements are different, exchanging them gives a different object. Notation: (a, b) or ⟨a,b⟩.