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Throat :: Throat (n.) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column..

Ringbill :: Ringbill (n.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.

Shawl :: Shawl (n.) A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders..

Trachelobranchiate :: Trachelobranchiate (a.) Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.

Tucker :: Tucker (n.) A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later..

Peninsula :: Peninsula (n.) A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus..

Headless :: Headless (a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass..

Throatboll :: Throatboll (n.) The Adam's apple in the neck.

Kill :: Kill (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc..

Prester :: Prester (n.) One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.

Wimple :: Wimple (n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns..

Neckplate :: Neckplate (n.) See Gorget, 1 and 2..

Hyosternal :: Hyosternal (a.) Between the hyoid bone and the sternum, or pertaining to them; infrahyoid; as, the hyosternal region of the neck..

Block :: Block (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.

Juke :: Juke (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.

Leatherneck :: Leatherneck (n.) The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up..

Partlet :: Partlet (n.) A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff..

Peristerite :: Peristerite (n.) A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck..

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