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Long-headed. World English Historical Dictionary

Long-headed. 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-headed a.

1   1.  Having a long head: a. of persons, dolichocephalic; b. of things.

2 1875.  Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, ii. 24. I experimented on both the oval and long-headed glands.

3 1888.  Pall Mall Gaz., 13 Sept., 11/2. The men, who are wont to claim superior business cunning, are literally more long-headed (‘dolichocephalic’).

4 1890.  Huxley, in 19th Cent., Nov., 757. People who are as regularly broad-headed as the Swedes and Germans are long-headed.

5 1900.  Daily News, 31 July, 6/5. The long-headed Neolithic man.

6   2.  Of great discernment or foresight; discerning, shrewd, far-seeing.

7 a. 1700.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Long-headed, wise, of great reach and foresight.

8 1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 52, ¶ 3. Being a long-headed Gentlewoman, I am apt to imagine she has some further Design than you have yet penetrated.

9 1721.  Amherst, Terræ Filius, x. 49. The heads of colleges, d’ye see, being, most of them, long-headed men, argue logically upon this point.

10 1735.  Dyche & Pardon, Dict., Long-headed, cunning, subtle, wise, artful.

11 1815.  Mad. D’Arblay, Diary (1876), IV. 301. Madame … was a woman that the Scotch would call long-headed.

12 1840.  Dickens, Old C. Shop, lxvi. Men of the world, long-headed customers, knowing dogs.

13 1864.  Lowell, McClellan or Lincoln? Pr. Wks. (1890), V. 173. Mr. Lincoln is a long-headed and long-purposed man.

14   Hence Longheadedness.

15 1863.  Lytton, Caxtoniana, I. xi. 188. The practical long-headedness, the ready adaptation of shrewd wit to immediate circumstance.

16 1866.  Lowell, Swinburne’s Trag., Pr. Wks. (1890), II. 128. Ulysses was the type of long-headedness.

17 1880.  Dawkins, Early Man in Brit., ix. 324. The Iberic element in the population of Spain has mainly contributed to the long-headedness of the modern Spaniard.

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