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Having shaggy hair; shock-headed. [Obs.] Those rough rug-headed kerns. Shak.

Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)

Having a thick and bushy head of hair.

Weak in intellect.

Having a thick skull; stupid.

Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm (Zoöl.), any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.

Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.

op of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.

The white-headed eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head.

A white-headed variety of pigeon.

A baldheaded person. Shak.

Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. Shak.

e usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury. -- Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat. -- Bar sinister (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously used for baton, a mark of ille…

With head uncovered; bareheaded. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. Herbert.

The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. Noble heads which have been brought to the block. E. Everett.

ft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

Hot-headed; furious. [R.] Shak.

or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage. -- Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.