ACEPHALOUS

a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Headless.

2.
a.

Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.

3.
a.

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

4.
a.

Without a leader or chief.

5.
a.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

6.
a.

Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. Brande.