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Large headed; -- applied to animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads.

Same as Nott-headed. [Obs.] Shak.

The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing.

The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]

Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

Broad-headed.

on European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, or red-headed, widgeon.

eople; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported. The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed. Dryden.

Giddy; rattle-headed.

Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.

osely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.

pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Rivet joint, or Riveted joint, a joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets.

The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls.

Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.

also Dogfish, Houndfish, Notidanian, and Tope. -- Gray shark, the sand shark. -- Hammer-headed shark. See Hammerhead. -- Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont. -- Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse. -- Shark ray. Same as Angel fish (a), under Angel. -- Thrasher shark, or Thresher shark, a large, vora…

Shock-headed. Tennyson.

scrape the feet in walking or dancing. The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.

Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand. Dryden. That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield. Milton.

quills black and the head and upper part of the neck white. Called also white head, white-headed goose, and bald brant. -- Snow leopard (Zool.), the ounce. -- Snow line, lowest limit of perpetual snow. In the Alps this is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, in the Andes, at the equator, 16,000 feet. -- Snow mouse (Zoöl.),…

yellower and warmer. Fairholt. -- Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail. -- Spanish sheep (Zoöl.), a merino. -- Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment. -- Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a…