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unˈheaded, a.
[un-1 9.]
Destitute or devoid of a head or heading, in various senses.
(a)1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. 94/1 in Holinshed II, The most part of those arrowes, which were shot ouer the walles, were vnheaded. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa Introd. 36 A kinde of small slender dartes or pikes, some whereof are headed with some kinde mettall, the residue being unheaded.
(b)1608Topsell Serpents 609 This monster..nor man nor dragon is.., But man unlegged, and snake unheaded.
(c)1607Puritaine Widdow v. iv. 8 Such is the blind besotting in the state of an vnheaded woman thats a widdow. 1673Temple Obs. United Prov. Wks. 1720 I. 16 The People were enraged, but awed and unheaded.
(d)1908Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 153 Even unheaded clippings from them [sc. various newspapers] declared their origin. 1970R. Jeffries Dead Man's Bluff xix. 189 How did you know which hotel to come to today?.. The letter was written on unheaded notepaper. |