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A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.

A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.

A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck. Pinnated grouse (Zoöl.), the prairie chicken.

A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. Job xxxviii. 31.

A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age.

A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example.

An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.

mmatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. -- Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. -- Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.

A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.

parate cover, the body usually rounded or polygonal in plan with nearly vertical sides, a neck of smaller size, and a rounded shoulder.

One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement. [Obs.]

A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.

-- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra. -- n.

ddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.

A ruff for the neck. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato. [Obs.] Shak.

The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.