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ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.

s in the Bahamas, and having a shelly covering. They are strung like beads, and made into necklaces by the natives. -- Ground pig (Zoöl.), a large, burrowing, African rodent (Aulacodus Swinderianus) about two feet long, allied to the porcupines but with harsh, bristly hair, and no spines; -- called also ground rat. -…

ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.

A kind of short chemisette, worn with a low-necked dress.

The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used.

) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp.

esponding arm of the opponent, generally behind, and the hand placed upon the back of his neck. In the full nelson both hands are so placed.

The neck or throat. [Obs.] Do me hangen by the hals. Chaucer.

To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.] Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser.

To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter. "A haltered neck." Shak.

he traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.

A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.

To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.

A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.

isk. Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller.

Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.

h.) See Heel, n., 7. -- Heel ring, a ring for fastening a scythe blade to the snath. -- Neck and heels, the whole body. (Colloq.) -- To be at the heels of, to pursue closely; to follow hard: as, hungry want is at my heels. Otway. -- To be down at the heel, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. -- To be out at the hee…

A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.

To utter with a hissing sound. The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise. Tennyson.