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Definition of Shortheads
1. shorthead [n] - See also: shorthead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortheads
Literary usage of Shortheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glimpses of the Ages: Or, The "superior" and "inferior" Races, So Called by Theophilus E. Samuel Scholes (1905)
"... of their "facial angle" at the time of the Roman Conquest ? And when was it
redressed ? In those days were there only "shortheads"? If there were not, ..."
2. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1893)
"... and that, on the showing of the latest researches, many Germans, especially
of South Germany, are, as well as numbers of French, shortheads. ..."
3. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (1893)
"... and that, on the showing of the latest researches, many Germans, especially
of South Germany, are, as well as numbers of French, shortheads. ..."
4. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"... and shortheads, but a dol icho- cephalic race in process of metamorphosis into
a brachycephalic, thereby giving rise to neolithic ..."
5. A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1824)
"... and comes up soon to give them breath: during the first year called shortheads,
and then yield fifty barrels of blubber: at two years they are stunts, ..."
6. Lectures on Man: His Place in Creation, and in the History of the Earth by Karl Christoph Vogt, James Hunt (1864)
"... nineteen middle heads, twelve semi-shortheads, but not one genuine shorthead,
so that the mean lies in the ..."
7. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"They continue suckling for a year, during which time they are named shortheads
by the sailors, and yield above 50 barrels of blubber; at two years they are ..."
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