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| Niggerhead | n. A strong black chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form; negro head. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] | | Loggerhead | n. [ Log + head. ] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Naut.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. (Zool.) A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta syn. Thalassochelys caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. (Zool.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike. [ 1913 Webster ]
To be at loggerheads,
To fall to loggerheads, or
To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Loggerheaded | a. Dull; stupid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Loggerheads | n. (Bot.) The knapweed. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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| | | | | | | | Loggerhead | n. [ Log + head. ] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Naut.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. (Zool.) A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta syn. Thalassochelys caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. (Zool.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike. [ 1913 Webster ]
To be at loggerheads,
To fall to loggerheads, or
To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Loggerheaded | a. Dull; stupid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Loggerheads | n. (Bot.) The knapweed. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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