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Long-head. World English Historical Dictionary

Long-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. 1903, rev. 2024. Long-head [f. LONG a.]

1   † 1.  nonce-use. One who wears his hair long; opposed to ROUNDHEAD. Obs.

2 1642.  (title) Description of Round-Heads and Long Heads.

3   2.  One who has a skull of more than average length; in mod. scientific language spec. one the breadth of whose head is less than four-fifths of its length; a dolichocephalic person.

4 1650.  Bulwer, Anthropomet., 2. There were found many Macrocephali among them, that is, such Long-heads as no other Nation had the like.

5 1704.  Swift, Mech. Operat. Spirit, Misc. (1711), 282. Hippocrates tells us that among our Ancestors the Scythians there was a Nation, called Longheads.

6 1890.  Huxley, in 19th Cent., Nov., 757. The tall blond long-heads practically disappear.

7 1900.  Daily News, 31 July, 6/5. The wanderings of the long heads over the Western hemisphere are traced by their monuments.

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