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Figure-head. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Figure-head 1.  A piece of ornamental carving, usually a bust or full-length figure, placed over the cut-water of a ship.

1 1765.  Ann. Reg., 185. We hear that his majesty’s ship the Newcastle will soon have a new figure head, the old one being almost worn out.

2 1833.  Marryat, P. Simple (1863), 113. D—n it, if her figure-head and bows be finished off by the same builder, she’s perfect.

3 1887.  Besant, The World Went Very Well Then, xxvii. 207. Even the beautiful carved group which once served for a figure-head, such as the French love, broken and mutilated.

4   b.  humorously for: Face (of a person).

5 1840.  Marryat, Poor Jack, v. [It] had at the time ‘knocked his figure-head all to smash.’

6 1884.  D. Pae, Eustace, 91. If you don’t want your figure-head spoiled.

7   2.  Said depreciatingly of one who holds the position of head of a body of persons, a community, society, etc., but possesses neither authority nor influence. Also attrib.

8 1883.  The Congregationalist, XII. Dec., 1019. Mere diocesan figure-heads with no opinions at all.

9 1885.  Frederick Daniel, In an Old Virginia Town, in Harper’s Mag., ix. March, 610/2. He was a mere figure-head president, according to our modern parlance.

10 1891.  Spectator, 12 Dec., 832/2. No one can say that Lord Salisbury has been a mere figure-head to the Government.

11   3.  Arch. A grotesque head, animal, etc., carved in stone on the corbel of a building; a corbel-head.

12 1874.  Archæol. Assoc. Jrnl., Dec., 416. Its internal wall is clearly that of the original nave, as the row of figure-heads is continued inside that portion of the church.

13   Hence Figure-headless a., without a figure-head. Figure-headship, the position of figure-head.

14 1878.  Besant & Rice, Celia’s Arb., I. xv. 219. There was one old gentleman in particular, a genius in figure-head carving, who had his studio in the Dockyard, and furnished her Majesty’s Navy with bows, decorated in so magnificent a style, that one, who, like me, remembers them, is fain to weep in only looking at the figure-headless ironclads of the present degenerate days.

15 1884.  Pall Mall G., 14 May, 3/1. The figure-headship of the Opposition.

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