ˈhind-head Obs. or arch.
[f. hind a. + head1.]
The back of the head; the occiput.
| 1666 Despauterii Gramm. Inst. i. (Jam.), Sinciput, the forehead. Occiput, the hindhead. 1689 Burnet Tracts I. 87 They christen..pouring the Water on the Hind-head. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 487 The occiput, or hind⁓head is that part of the face that either forms an angle with the vertex posteriorly or slopes downwards from it. 1865 Kingsley Herew. II. vii. 114 An angry savage smote him on the hind head full with a stone axe. |