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long-headed, a.
1. Having a long head:
a. of persons, dolichocephalic;
b. of things.
1875Darwin Insectiv. Plants ii. 24, I experimented on both the oval and long-headed glands. 1888Pall Mall G. 13 Sept. 11/2 The men, who are wont to claim superior business cunning, are literally more long-headed (‘dolichocephalic’). 1890Huxley in 19th Cent. Nov. 757 People who are as regularly broad-headed as the Swedes and Germans are long-headed. 1900Daily News 31 July 6/5 The long-headed Neolithic man.
2. Of great discernment or foresight; discerning, shrewd, far-seeing.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Long-headed, wise, of great reach and foresight. 1711Steele Spect. No. 52 ⁋3 Being a long-headed Gentlewoman, I am apt to imagine she has some further Design than you have yet penetrated. 1721Amherst Terræ Fil. x. 49 The heads of colleges, d'ye see, being, most of them, long-headed men, argue logically upon this point. 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Long-headed, cunning, subtle, wise, artful. 1815F. Burney Diary (1876) IV. 301 Madame..was a woman that the Scotch would call long-headed. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop lxvi, Men of the world, long-headed customers, knowing dogs. 1864Lowell McClellan or Lincoln? Pr. Wks. (1890) V. 173 Mr. Lincoln is a long-headed and long-purposed man.
Hence longˈheadedness.
1863Lytton Caxtoniana I. xi. 188 The practical long-headedness, the ready adaptation of shrewd wit to immediate circumstance. 1866Lowell Swinburne's Trag. Pr. Wks. (1890) II. 128 Ulysses was the type of long-headedness. 1880Dawkins 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. |