Definition of neck

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Neck (n.) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts..

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Chemisette :: Chemisette (n.) An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast..
Hippocampus :: Hippocampus (n.) 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.
Necked :: Necked (a.) Cracked; -- said of a treenail.
Fall :: Fall (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule..
Muffler :: Muffler (n.) Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet..
Juke :: Juke (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
Nuchal :: Nuchal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles..
Neck :: Neck (n.) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd..
Crane :: Crane (v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully..
Ewe-necked :: Ewe-necked (a.) Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out..
Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck..
Yunx :: Yunx (n.) A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.
Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Encolure :: Encolure (n.) The neck of horse.
Doublet :: Doublet (a.) 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..
Rosella :: Rosella (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow..
Cement :: Cement (n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
Sweetbread :: Sweetbread (n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus..
Crane :: Crane (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick..
Scuff :: Scuff (n.) The back part of the neck; the scruff.
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