Diminishing gradually in breadth or thickness towards one extremity (originally, upward); becoming continuously narrower or more slender in one…

Having a slender or tapering form similar to that of a rush. Obsolete.

Of or in the fashion or form of a taper; taper-like in shape; tapering, tapered.

That tapers; taper.

Made to taper; diminished in breadth or thickness by degrees; tapering, taper.

poetic in nonce-uses. Of objects with regard to form, movement, etc.: Tapering; sloping gradually; moving or changing gradually.

Architecture, Shipbuilding, etc. Thinning or tapering off gradually.