Word Finder - headless

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Without a head; decapitated.

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How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?

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Without leadership.

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The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.

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(of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word.

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Running without a graphical user interface; running without any attached output device (e.g., monitor) or input device (e.g., keyboard, mouse).

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(of beer) Without a head of foam.

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Heedless.

According to local tradition he was buried at Cefn-y-bedd ("the ridge of the grave") close by, but it is more likely that his headless trunk was taken to Abbey Cwmhir.

She fell hard on her backside and saw her attacker's headless body land beside her.

His headless corpse was later found in a ditch.

The eruciform larva of the Orthorrhapha leads on to the headless vermiform maggot of the Cyclorrhapha, and in the latter sub-order we find metamorphosis carried to its extreme point, the muscid flies being the most highly specialized of all the Hexapoda as regards structure, while their maggots are the most degraded of all insect larvae.

The Mac Mini is a headless computer not much bigger than a large paperback novel.

There is a headless horseman who patrols along the Tyndall Avenue at night on his black horse.

Here's your chance to see a headless torso, the Gentleman Ghost and a multitude of others.

Doing all of these things instead of running around a job, often like a headless chicken.

If they are now to be criticized for not running sufficiently expansionary fiscal policies, they will be running around like headless chickens.

Netribution sources say Cleese just gave a lecture at Cornell University, where he confirmed he will play Nick the nearly headless Ghost.

St Edmund's head, left, lies between the (now headless) wolf's paws.

The corpses appear headless, the flesh chewed at, the manner of death not clear.

How do I configure Linux to run headless with a terminal connected to a serial port?

There was no certainty that the northerners would not respond promptly to the coup and place a Northerner in charge of the headless State.

Grix's last thought was fear for his children, as he dropped heavily onto Tommy's headless torso.

Meanwhile a headless statue of a king named Khyan, found at Bubastis, was attributed on various grounds to the Hyksos, the soundest arguments being his foreign name and the boastful un-Egyptian epithet "beloved of his ka," where "beloved of Ptah" or some other god was to be expected.

Typically, he is a large black dog with fiery eyes, but sometimes he is headless.

Then use arrows to shoot at him to while he's still headless.

Her headless apparition is often seen throughout the hallways of the Tower.

Maria herself would doubtless have shared the same fate, but for the speedy intervention of her fiancé, whom a diet, by the advice of the Venetians, had elected to rule the headless realm on the 31st of March 1387.

The Tibetan half-cursive was further developed into the more current " headless " (u-med) characters, of which there are several styles.

In another room (Sala del Tesoro) was recovered a gigantic headless figure, in all probability of Mercury, also wrongly claimed at first for Leonardo, and afterwards, to all appearance rightly, for Bramante.

What makes this archaeological find strange is that there were more headless skeletons found than the number of skulls.