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Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.

A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

See Wryneck.

handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.

s comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.

Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertainingto the Trachelipoda.

Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.

The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.

of ducks belonging to Dendrocygna and allied genera. These ducks have a long and slender neck and a long hind toe. They are arboreal in their habits, and are found in the tropical parts of America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. -- Tree fern (Bot.), an arborescent fern having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twent…

Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.

ite or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.

rrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.

e jessamine. Milton. Tufted trees and springing corn. Pope. Tufted duck (Zoöl.), the ring-necked duck. [Local, U.S.]

or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.

. The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms. Addison.

One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.

A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power.

He had nothing of vainglory. Bacon. The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself in vainglory. Shak.

nous hum (Med.), a humming sound, or bruit, heard during auscultation of the veins of the neck in anæmia. -- Venous pulse (Physiol.), the pulse, or rhythmic contraction, sometimes seen in a vein, as in the neck, when there is an obstruction to the passage of blood from the auricles to the ventricles, or when there is…

ation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. [Obs.] She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss She vied so fast. Shak. Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them. Milton. And vying malice with my gentleness, Pick quarrels with their only happiness. Herbert.…