short-neck'd

English

Adjective

short-neck'd (comparative more short-neck'd, superlative most short-neck'd)

1. Archaic form of short-necked.
   • 1664, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Propos’d in Familiar Discourses to a Friend, by Way of Invitation to the Study of It, second part, page 329:

     […] we were reduc’d to make our Extractions in ſhort-neck’d Glaſs-Eggs or Vials exquiſitely ſtop’d […]

   • 1735, “Explanation of an Essay on the Use of the Bile in the Animal Oeconomy, by Alexander Stuart, […]”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labors of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World., volume XXXVIII, London: […] W. Innys and R. Manby, […], page 13:

     In Short-neck’d People the Paſſage between the Heart and the Brain being proportionally ſhort, the Force or Momentum of the Circulation in the Brain, is by ſo much the greater; […]

   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 45:

     But “no, he was a short-neck’d, apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.”