long-head
[f. long a.]
† 1. nonce-use. One who wears his hair long; opposed to roundhead. Obs.
| 1642 (title) Description of Round-Heads and Long Heads. |
2. One who has a skull of more than average length; in mod. scientific language spec. one the breadth of whose head is less than four-fifths of its length; a dolichocephalic person.
| 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 2 There were found many Macrocephali among them, that is, such Long-heads as no other Nation had the like. 1704 Swift Mech. Operat. Spirit Misc. (1711) 282 Hippocrates tells us that among our Ancestors the Scythians there was a Nation, called Longheads. 1890 Huxley in 19th Cent. Nov. 757 The tall blond long-heads practically disappear. 1900 Daily News 31 July 6/5 The wanderings of the long heads over the Western hemisphere are traced by their monuments. |