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Definition of Long-headed
1. Adjective. Having a dolichocephalic head.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-headed
Literary usage of Long-headed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"It corresponds much more nearly to these long-headed races of the Neolithic type
in stature. It seems highly probable, from their present geographical ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"The skull is here markedly long-headed, with the parietal diameter less than the
... In Bolivia there were the Aymará, long-headed, of which few examples ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"... had shown his talents and enthusiasm, and had made himself a man about whom
politicians and long-headed men hinted, conjectured, and prophesied. ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1883)
"... as the departure of the last of that band of seniors, above referred to, who
long headed the profession there ; and among our professors of surgery, ..."
5. Ethnology: I. Fundamental Ethnical Problems. II. The Primary Ethnical Groups by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... that all the facts point in this direction, the persistence of a long-headed
type will be at once explained. In Britain, where there was, so to say, ..."
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