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English
Adjective
short-neck'd (comparative more short-neck'd, superlative most short-neck'd)
- Archaic form of short-necked.
1664, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Propos’d in Familiar Discourses to a Friend, by Way of Invitation to the Study of It, second part, page 329:[…] we were reduc’d to make our Extractions in ſhort-neck’d Glaſs-Eggs or Vials exquiſitely ſtop’d […]
1735, “Explanation of an Essay on the Use of the Bile in the Animal Oeconomy, by Alexander Stuart, ”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labors of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World., volume XXXVIII, London: W. Innys and R. Manby, , page 13:In Short-neck’d People the Paſſage between the Heart and the Brain being proportionally ſhort, the Force or Momentum of the Circulation in the Brain, is by ſo much the greater; […]
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 45:But “no, he was a short-neck’d, apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.”