deadheaddead-headdead headn.¹

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdeadhead.

†1. Old Chemistry. = caput mortuum n. 2. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > distillation > residue left after

deadhead1576

caput mortuum1651

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f. 195 See whether the deadeheade be blacke.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §109. 177 Take from the Dunghil at the Refiners, his dead head, commonly called, Caput mortuum.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 329 I made a Lixivium with clear Water, and filter'd it to take away the dead head of it.

2. Technology

a. Founding. The extra length or ‘head’ of metal at the muzzle end of a gun-casting, which contains the dross formed on the molten metal, and which is cut off when cool; see also quot. 1874.

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1869 Eng. Mech. 17 Dec. 320/1 When castings are required to be particularly solid..they are generally made with what is termed a ‘dead head’.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dead-head..That piece on a casting which fills the ingate at which the metal entered the mold. A feeding-head.

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b. Mechanics. The tail-stock of a lathe, containing the dead spindle (see dead adj. 23).

c. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.)

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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dead-head, a kind of dolphin (a stout post on a quay head to make hawsers fast to); also, a rough block of wood used as an anchor-bouy.

3. colloquial.

a. A person admitted without payment to a theatrical performance, a public conveyance, etc. Also attributive and transferred. Originally U.S.

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society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [noun] > practice of admitting free of charge > one admitted free of charge

liberty boy1826

deadhead1841

1841 Spirit of Times 23 Jan. 564/1 The house on Tuesday was filled as far as $300 could fill, barring ‘the dead heads’.

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms App. s.v. Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the theatre without charge, are called dead heads.

1853 J. R. Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 19 Those ‘attentive clerks’ whose praises are sung by thankful deadheads.

1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 15 The milch cow which barely pays the expense of keeping and care is a ‘dead head’ yielding no profit.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 1 Nov. A friend of mine, a very eminent ‘dead-head’—that is to say, one who has free admissions everywhere and to everything.

1869 W. H. Brewer Rocky Mt. Lett. (1930) 11 We had quite a train—some congressmen who have dead-head tickets over the road.

1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail ii. 32 Once in a while the conductor found it desirable to eject some would-be dead-head passenger while between stations.

1892 Daily News 16 Sept. 5/6 The natural antipathy between performers and what are known in the theatrical profession as ‘deadheads’..who do not pay for their entertainment.

1892 Congress. Rec. 31 May App. 385/1 The free-delivery service is burdened by the collection and delivery of thousands of dead-head matter under the ‘penalty-postage system’.

b. Used predicatively without article. U.S.

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1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxx. 275 Senators and Representatives..always traveled ‘dead-head’ both ways.

1888 Portland Transcript 14 Mar. (Farmer) [Those letters] which had to do with the stage business and went dead-head.

c. A non-combatant accompanying a fighting force. U.S.

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1864 T. C. Reynolds in J. N. Edwards Shelby & his Men (1867) xxvii. 470 The real fighting men did little injury, sneaks and dead-heads being the principal plunderers.

1867 J. N. Edwards Shelby xxi. 396 Accompanied by at least five hundred ‘dead-heads’, loafers, and amateur cavalry gentlemen.

d. A train, freight car, truck, etc., carrying no passengers or freight. Also attributive. U.S.

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1938 L. M. Beebe High Iron 220 Deadhead,..empty passenger car.

1945 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 15 Dec. 1/7 The headon collision of a deadhead engine and a 37-car freight train.

1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 109 A deadhead, an empty mail car.

4. In full dead head log: a sunken or submerged log. U.S.

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1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail lv. 380 He was enabled to catch the slanting end of a ‘dead head’ log whose lower end was jammed in the crib.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 34.

1907 Black Cat June 17 Numerous ‘dead-heads’ bobbed in the current like otters swimming with the stream.

5. A person who contributes nothing to an enterprise, activity, etc.; an unenterprising person.

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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [noun] > one who takes no part in action > one who contributes no effort

passenger1852

chair-warmer1909

deadhead1942

1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 215 It's an awfully sticky party this... I'm a deadhead to-night, but I can't help it.

1952 Landfall 6 265 You can ignore him [God] too, as these Te Parenga deadheads do.

1964 Economist 4 Apr. 40/1 A ‘dead head agency’, a safe berth for unenterprising civil servants.

6. A faded flower head. See dead adj. 1c.

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1960 D. Holman-Hunt My Grandmothers & I i. 7 Did you cut off all the deadheads?

1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove v. 177 I'll go and snip the deadheads off the roses.

1970 C. Lloyd Well-tempered Garden i. 48 The culling of dead heads is a ploy that figures persistently in the garden in summer.

7. As adj. Headlong.

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1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 115 I made a dead-head scramble for the doors.

Derivatives

ˈdeadheadism n. the practice of admitting persons as ‘deadheads’.

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society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [noun] > practice of admitting free of charge

deadheadism1857

deadheading1873

1857 N.Y. Tribune I had never experienced the blessed privilege of deadheadism.

1887 Miss Bayle's Romance III. 92 I mean to abolish dead-headism.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

Deadheadn.²

Brit.

/ˈdɛdhɛd/, U.S.

/ˈdɛdˌ(h)ɛd/

Forms: 1900s– Dead Head, 1900s– Dead head, 1900s– Deadhead.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English Dead , head n.¹

Etymology: < The Grateful Dead, the name of a U.S. rock group (1965–95) + head n.¹ (compare sense 13a).

colloquial (originally U.S.).

A (devoted or enthusiastic) fan of the rock group the Grateful Dead.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music > of specific types of pop

hard rocker1942

skiffler1948

rock fan1959

rocker1963

discomaniac1966

Deadhead1971

punk rocker1972

punker1973

punkette1974

Krautrocker1976

punk1976

punk fan1976

punkster1976

new waver1977

soulie1978

post-punk1979

New Romantic1980

headbanger1981

skanker1983

grebo1987

old schooler1990

shoegazer1991

technoid1992

thrasher1992

gabba1995

1971 Stereo Rev. July 102/3 The Grateful Dead: Vintage Dead... For Dead ‘heads’... Passing the acid test of time will probably be the privilege of very few groups, and I don't think the Grateful Dead will be among them.

1971 Grateful Dead: Live 2 LP Set (record sleeve notes) Dead freaks unite. Who are you? Where are you? How are you? send us your name and address and we'll keep you informed. Dead Heads. P.O. Box 1065 [etc.].

1975 Village Voice 22 Sept. 119/1 It's better than either ‘Wake of the Flood’ or ‘Mars Hotel’, but even seasoned Dead heads will admit that's not saying much.

1986 P. Frame et al. Illustr. Rock Handbk. 94/3 Fans of the band became known as ‘Dead Heads’ and were famous for their incredible loyalty.

1992 Relix Feb. 15/1 Most Deadheads first heard of Virtual Reality..in a November 1989 Rolling Stone interview with Jerry Garcia.

2003 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. ix. 13/2 He was a Deadhead, a veteran of 35 concerts, and was the host of a radio show, ‘The Grateful Dead Hour’.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	deadhead
释义	deadheaddead-headdead headn.¹ Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdeadhead. †1. Old Chemistry. = caput mortuum n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > distillation > residue left after deadhead1576 caput mortuum1651 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f. 195 See whether the deadeheade be blacke. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §109. 177 Take from the Dunghil at the Refiners, his dead head, commonly called, Caput mortuum. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 329 I made a Lixivium with clear Water, and filter'd it to take away the dead head of it. 2. Technology a. Founding. The extra length or ‘head’ of metal at the muzzle end of a gun-casting, which contains the dross formed on the molten metal, and which is cut off when cool; see also quot. 1874. ΚΠ 1869 Eng. Mech. 17 Dec. 320/1 When castings are required to be particularly solid..they are generally made with what is termed a ‘dead head’. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dead-head..That piece on a casting which fills the ingate at which the metal entered the mold. A feeding-head. Categories » b. Mechanics. The tail-stock of a lathe, containing the dead spindle (see dead adj. 23). c. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.) ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dead-head, a kind of dolphin (a stout post on a quay head to make hawsers fast to); also, a rough block of wood used as an anchor-bouy. 3. colloquial. a. A person admitted without payment to a theatrical performance, a public conveyance, etc. Also attributive and transferred. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [noun] > practice of admitting free of charge > one admitted free of charge liberty boy1826 deadhead1841 1841 Spirit of Times 23 Jan. 564/1 The house on Tuesday was filled as far as $300 could fill, barring ‘the dead heads’. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms App. s.v. Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the theatre without charge, are called dead heads. 1853 J. R. Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 19 Those ‘attentive clerks’ whose praises are sung by thankful deadheads. 1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 15 The milch cow which barely pays the expense of keeping and care is a ‘dead head’ yielding no profit. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 1 Nov. A friend of mine, a very eminent ‘dead-head’—that is to say, one who has free admissions everywhere and to everything. 1869 W. H. Brewer Rocky Mt. Lett. (1930) 11 We had quite a train—some congressmen who have dead-head tickets over the road. 1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail ii. 32 Once in a while the conductor found it desirable to eject some would-be dead-head passenger while between stations. 1892 Daily News 16 Sept. 5/6 The natural antipathy between performers and what are known in the theatrical profession as ‘deadheads’..who do not pay for their entertainment. 1892 Congress. Rec. 31 May App. 385/1 The free-delivery service is burdened by the collection and delivery of thousands of dead-head matter under the ‘penalty-postage system’. b. Used predicatively without article. U.S. ΚΠ 1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxx. 275 Senators and Representatives..always traveled ‘dead-head’ both ways. 1888 Portland Transcript 14 Mar. (Farmer) [Those letters] which had to do with the stage business and went dead-head. c. A non-combatant accompanying a fighting force. U.S. ΚΠ 1864 T. C. Reynolds in J. N. Edwards Shelby & his Men (1867) xxvii. 470 The real fighting men did little injury, sneaks and dead-heads being the principal plunderers. 1867 J. N. Edwards Shelby xxi. 396 Accompanied by at least five hundred ‘dead-heads’, loafers, and amateur cavalry gentlemen. d. A train, freight car, truck, etc., carrying no passengers or freight. Also attributive. U.S. ΚΠ 1938 L. M. Beebe High Iron 220 Deadhead,..empty passenger car. 1945 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 15 Dec. 1/7 The headon collision of a deadhead engine and a 37-car freight train. 1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 109 A deadhead, an empty mail car. 4. In full dead head log: a sunken or submerged log. U.S. ΚΠ 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail lv. 380 He was enabled to catch the slanting end of a ‘dead head’ log whose lower end was jammed in the crib. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 34. 1907 Black Cat June 17 Numerous ‘dead-heads’ bobbed in the current like otters swimming with the stream. 5. A person who contributes nothing to an enterprise, activity, etc.; an unenterprising person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [noun] > one who takes no part in action > one who contributes no effort passenger1852 chair-warmer1909 deadhead1942 1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 215 It's an awfully sticky party this... I'm a deadhead to-night, but I can't help it. 1952 Landfall 6 265 You can ignore him [God] too, as these Te Parenga deadheads do. 1964 Economist 4 Apr. 40/1 A ‘dead head agency’, a safe berth for unenterprising civil servants. 6. A faded flower head. See dead adj. 1c. ΚΠ 1960 D. Holman-Hunt My Grandmothers & I i. 7 Did you cut off all the deadheads? 1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove v. 177 I'll go and snip the deadheads off the roses. 1970 C. Lloyd Well-tempered Garden i. 48 The culling of dead heads is a ploy that figures persistently in the garden in summer. 7. As adj. Headlong. ΚΠ 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 115 I made a dead-head scramble for the doors. Derivatives ˈdeadheadism n. the practice of admitting persons as ‘deadheads’. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [noun] > practice of admitting free of charge deadheadism1857 deadheading1873 1857 N.Y. Tribune I had never experienced the blessed privilege of deadheadism. 1887 Miss Bayle's Romance III. 92 I mean to abolish dead-headism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019). Deadheadn.² Brit. /ˈdɛdhɛd/, U.S. /ˈdɛdˌ(h)ɛd/ Forms: 1900s– Dead Head, 1900s– Dead head, 1900s– Deadhead. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English Dead , head n.¹ Etymology: < The Grateful Dead, the name of a U.S. rock group (1965–95) + head n.¹ (compare sense 13a). colloquial (originally U.S.). A (devoted or enthusiastic) fan of the rock group the Grateful Dead. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music > of specific types of pop hard rocker1942 skiffler1948 rock fan1959 rocker1963 discomaniac1966 Deadhead1971 punk rocker1972 punker1973 punkette1974 Krautrocker1976 punk1976 punk fan1976 punkster1976 new waver1977 soulie1978 post-punk1979 New Romantic1980 headbanger1981 skanker1983 grebo1987 old schooler1990 shoegazer1991 technoid1992 thrasher1992 gabba1995 1971 Stereo Rev. July 102/3 The Grateful Dead: Vintage Dead... For Dead ‘heads’... Passing the acid test of time will probably be the privilege of very few groups, and I don't think the Grateful Dead will be among them. 1971 Grateful Dead: Live 2 LP Set (record sleeve notes) Dead freaks unite. Who are you? Where are you? How are you? send us your name and address and we'll keep you informed. Dead Heads. P.O. Box 1065 [etc.]. 1975 Village Voice 22 Sept. 119/1 It's better than either ‘Wake of the Flood’ or ‘Mars Hotel’, but even seasoned Dead heads will admit that's not saying much. 1986 P. Frame et al. Illustr. Rock Handbk. 94/3 Fans of the band became known as ‘Dead Heads’ and were famous for their incredible loyalty. 1992 Relix Feb. 15/1 Most Deadheads first heard of Virtual Reality..in a November 1989 Rolling Stone interview with Jerry Garcia. 2003 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. ix. 13/2 He was a Deadhead, a veteran of 35 concerts, and was the host of a radio show, ‘The Grateful Dead Hour’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2019). > see also also refers to : dead-headv. < n.¹1576n.²1971 see also
随便看	to observe a mediocrity to observe maigre to observe measure to observe measure a measure to observe measures to observe measures a measure to obtain one's jacket to obtain one's mind to obtain the jacket to occasionally build a fire under to occasionally cool out hots to occasionally go amok to occasionally push a person's nose in it to occupy the pulpit to occupy to repletion to off with to off with a person's head to offer battle to offer etc to offer for formerly to sale to offer for sale to offer odds to offer one's arm to offer or give a knee to offer place

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