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A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

A kind of banjo, with a short neck, tuned a fourth higher than the common banjo; -- popularly so called.

A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]

That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

,n.A kind of neckcloth. [Obs.] A treatise against the cravat and berdash. Steele.

Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. [Eng.]

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.

A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

A long, straightnecked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.

e, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

ay, to make them come to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up. "His bridling neck." Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.

ich is bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman.

ris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

ol in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. Tomlinson.