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Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (C. moschata) and is…

A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.

Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out. Youwatt.

The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out. [Eng.]

The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman's dress.

Having a well defined ring of color around the neck. Ring- necked duck (Zool.), an American scaup duck (Aythya collaris). The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck. This ring is absent in the female. Called also ring-neck, ring-necked blackhead, r…

one of several species of small plovers of the genus Ægialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Æ. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Æ. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.…

A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.

Having a scraggy neck.

The snakebird, 1.

To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Sneck up, be silent; shut up; hold your peace. Shak.

A door latch, or sneck. [Prov. Eng.]

Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.

The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.

A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.

A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.

Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3.

ns, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged." Milton.