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Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff- necked.

Having the neck bare.

Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull. Sir W. Scott.

Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out. Youwatt.

Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman's dress.

Having a well defined ring of color around the neck. Ring- necked duck (Zool.), an American scaup duck (Aythya collaris). The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck. This ring is absent in the female. Called also ring-neck, ring-necked blackhead, r…

Having a scraggy neck.

Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.

The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.

Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

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

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

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

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

A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

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

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