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Burr :: Burr (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting..

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

Cervical :: Cervical (a.) Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae..

Chuck :: Chuck (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast..

Breakneck :: Breakneck (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed..

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..

Necked :: Necked (a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked..

Cysticercus :: Cysticercus (n.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle)..

Aludel :: Aludel (n.) One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation..

Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..

Scarf :: Scarf (n.) An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth..

Trachelorrhaphy :: Trachelorrhaphy (n.) The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.

Rhinophore :: Rhinophore (n.) One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia..

Caboched :: Caboched (a.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing..

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

Adopter :: Adopter (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters..

Locket :: Locket (n.) A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

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

Ringbill :: Ringbill (n.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.

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..

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