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Giraffe :: Giraffe (n.) An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule..

Neckplate :: Neckplate (n.) See Gorget, 1 and 2..

Collet :: Collet (n.) A small collar or neckband.

Jacobin :: "Jacobin (n.) A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short..

Cruels :: Cruels (n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

Clod :: Clod (n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef..

Cravat :: Cravat (n.) A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck..

Paxwax :: Paxwax (n.) The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax..

Ring-necked :: Ring-necked (a.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.

Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein..

Cement :: Cement (n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.

Paleotherium :: Paleotherium (n.) An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama..

Stiff-neckedness :: Stiff-necked (a.) Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.

Berdash :: Berdash (n.) A kind of neckcloth.

Juke :: Juke (n.) The neck of a bird.

Neckcloth :: Neckcloth (n.) A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

Gorgerin :: Gorgerin (n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column..

Mane :: Mane (n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse..

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