Definition of neck

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Neck (n.) The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk..

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Guide :: Guide (n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder..
Fall :: Fall (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule..
Steep :: Steinkirk (n.) A kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.
Rail :: Rail (n.) An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.
Snacket :: Snacket (n.) See Snecket.
Nonpareil :: Nonpareil (a.) A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch..
Decollete :: Decollete (a.) Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress..
Neck :: Neck (v. t. & i.) To kiss and caress amorously.
Gorgerin :: Gorgerin (n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column..
Torque :: Torque (n.) A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons..
Water Crane :: Water crane () A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive..
Casque :: Casque (n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer..
Ring-necked :: Ring-necked (a.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.
Havelock :: Havelock (n.) A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke..
Trachelorrhaphy :: Trachelorrhaphy (n.) The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
Breakneck :: Breakneck (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
Pleiades :: Pleiades (n. pl.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus.
Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt.
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