Headless: alternatives and connections

A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another recei…

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…

The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.

the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"

A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat ci…

See Carcass.

of Carcass

To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.

A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.

the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck"; "the ho…

To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.

The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; als…

a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass

The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bla…

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out.

In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between tw…