Neck
41neck — [OE] Neck originally meant only the ‘back or nape of the neck’ (that is what its modern German relative nacken denotes, and in Old English times the usual word for ‘neck’ in general was heals). It seems to go back to a prehistoric Indo European… …
42neck — 1. Part of body by which the head is connected to the trunk : it extends from the base of the cranium to the top of the shoulders. 2. In anatomy, any constricted portion having a fancied resemblance to the n. of an animal. 3. The germinative… …
43neck — I. n cheek, impudence, daring, chutzpah. This sense of the word is at least 100 years old, originating in rustic northern English speech. It survives principally in the form brass neck, a synonym for bare faced cheek . ► I tell you, she s got… …
44neck — 1. noun a) The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals. Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized… …
45neck — Used by OT prophets in a symbolic way: a neck ‘as stiff as iron’ described stubbornness (Isa. 48:4). Breaking the yoke off the neck of Israel and Judah was Jeremiah s way of prophesying their future liberation. Paul praises Priscilla and Aquila… …
46neck — to kiss and caress amorously From the placing of an arm round the other s neck at some stage: ... to copulate, or at least neck, in the relative comfort of a parked sedan. (Ustinov, 1971) …
47neck — n 1. nape, scruff, Anat. cervix. 2. isthmus, tongue, cape, peninsula. 3. strait, narrows, arm, channel, canal, creek, U.S. Dial. kill. 4. neck and neck even, equal, level; abreast, side by side, nose to nose, alongside, parallel, running level,… …
48neck — See filler neck fuel filler neck …
49Neck. — Noël Martin Joseph de Necker Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (ou Natalis Josephi de Necker) est un médecin et un botaniste belge, né en 1729 et mort en 1793. Il est le médecin du prince électeur du Palatinat à Mannheim. Il se consacre… …
50neck — 1) fish don t have one, with the arguable exception of seahorses. Some species can move the head and look in different directions despite the lack of a flexible neck, e.g. darters (Percidae) 2) the narrowing of a placoid scale between its crown… …
