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Neck
NECK, n. [G. This word is properly the nape or vertebrae of the neck behind, and is so rendered in other languages, L. that is a knob or mass.]
1. The part of an animals body which is between the head and the trunk, and connects them. In man and many other animals, this part is more slender than the trunk; hence,
2. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts; as the neck of land between Boston and Roxbury.
3. The long slender part of a vessel,, as a retort; or of a plant, as a gourd; or of any instrument, as a guitar.
A stiff neck, in Scripture, denotes obstinacy in sin.
On the neck , immediately after; following closely.
First by committing one sin on the neck of another.
[This phrase is not much used. We more frequently say, on the heels.]
To break the neck of an affair, to hinder, or to do the principal thing to prevent.
To harden the neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious. Neh 9.
neck appears in definitions for these words:
Abada About Access Accessory Accolade Adopter Alembic Amend Amice Amulet Anaca Antigugler Apluster Aslant Atlas Axis Balloon Band Barenecked Barnacle Bead Bearing-cloth Bell Bell-wether Bird Bison Bittern Black-lead Bow Brain Break Breakneck Breast Brent Brisket Bronchocele Bull Bull-fight Bust Caboshed Camel Camelopard Canal Cape Carnosity Carrick-bend Carry Cartilaginous Cask Cervical Chersonese Chest Choke Coati Collar Collared Columbine Compassion Contortion Coral Cormorant Counter Crag Crane Cranny Cravat Crest-fallen Crick Crupper Cuirass Decollation Dentate Derivation Diadem Diomede Distort Dove Elk Eolipile Ephod Finger-board Freckle Freckled G Galley Gallows Godwit Goose Gorge Gorged Gorget Grampus Gullet Habergeon Halse Hame Handkerchief Hang Hanged Harden Headless Heel Hermetic Hydatid Hyena Isthmus Jugular Kan Kerchief Lamprey Locket Lute Mane Mantle Matrass Moniliform Moose Morse Muffle Nape Neck Neckatee Neckbeef Necked Neckerchief Necklace Necklaced Neckland Nun Nylgau Ordinary Packthread Partlet Peninsula Persecution Pessary Phylactery Pleiads Poll-evil Pontee Prester Prostate Punch Rabato Rack Reechy Retort Rickets Ruff Saddle-backed Sawer Scarlet-fever Scrofula Serpent Shawl Shoulder Sling Sober Solitair Spire Stamp Stanch Steenkirk Sternum Stiff-necked Stiffen Stock Stole Strain Swan Tablature Theorbo Throat Tipped Trash Turn Tye Untuckered Vandyke Vari Vie Warrant Weep Widgeon Withers Wry Wryneck Wrynecked Yoke
Abada About Access Accessory Accolade Adopter Alembic Amend Amice Amulet Anaca Antigugler Apluster Aslant Atlas Axis Balloon Band Barenecked Barnacle Bead Bearing-cloth Bell Bell-wether Bird Bison Bittern Black-lead Bow Brain Break Breakneck Breast Brent Brisket Bronchocele Bull Bull-fight Bust Caboshed Camel Camelopard Canal Cape Carnosity Carrick-bend Carry Cartilaginous Cask Cervical Chersonese Chest Choke Coati Collar Collared Columbine Compassion Contortion Coral Cormorant Counter Crag Crane Cranny Cravat Crest-fallen Crick Crupper Cuirass Decollation Dentate Derivation Diadem Diomede Distort Dove Elk Eolipile Ephod Finger-board Freckle Freckled G Galley Gallows Godwit Goose Gorge Gorged Gorget Grampus Gullet Habergeon Halse Hame Handkerchief Hang Hanged Harden Headless Heel Hermetic Hydatid Hyena Isthmus Jugular Kan Kerchief Lamprey Locket Lute Mane Mantle Matrass Moniliform Moose Morse Muffle Nape Neck Neckatee Neckbeef Necked Neckerchief Necklace Necklaced Neckland Nun Nylgau Ordinary Packthread Partlet Peninsula Persecution Pessary Phylactery Pleiads Poll-evil Pontee Prester Prostate Punch Rabato Rack Reechy Retort Rickets Ruff Saddle-backed Sawer Scarlet-fever Scrofula Serpent Shawl Shoulder Sling Sober Solitair Spire Stamp Stanch Steenkirk Sternum Stiff-necked Stiffen Stock Stole Strain Swan Tablature Theorbo Throat Tipped Trash Turn Tye Untuckered Vandyke Vari Vie Warrant Weep Widgeon Withers Wry Wryneck Wrynecked Yoke
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