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A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

ar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.

The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. "To dab him in the neck." Sir T. More.

, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.

To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate. The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

lowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors. Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets decorated her arms. Thackeray.

A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.

The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

To scatter; to sprinkle. [Obs.] Odorous water was Disperpled lightly on my head and neck. Chapman.

nd of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.

An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.

An ant. Emmet hunter (Zoöl.), the wryneck.

h colors as if with enamel. Oft he [the serpent]bowed His turret crest and sleek enameled neck. Milton.