Enter AMINADAB with a bill and headpiece.

and, headpiece, sit thou close!

I mean your headpiece.

Patience is a good armour, humility a strong headpiece, would I had you all three, I know where.

brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium^, sensory; head, headpiece; pate, noddle^, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium [Med.], cerebrum, cranium, brainpan^, sconce, upper story.

And yet I had been quite tranquil about you, for you have a well-balanced mindyou have a good, little, round, clear, solid headpiece, as I have often told you.

" "A dove within a headpiece made her nest, 'Twixt Mars and Venus see an interest.

Suddenly Charlie, who was picketed a few hundred yards off in a grassy spot, broke his halter close by the headpiece, and with a snort of delight bounded away, prancing and kicking up his heels!

Passersby were puzzled to see the old man suddenly snatch his headpiece off and peer with an intent and awestruck air into its irregular caverns.

"They tell me you are to be a lawyer, Mr. O'Malley," said he; "and, if so, I must advise you to take better care of your headpiece.

Annie has a good headpiece, and would be able to take the shop off your hands, leaving you free to look after the mills.'

Evans, a giant worker with a really remarkable headpiece.

The connection was broken, and the editor removed the headpiece.

With headpiece illus.

He rode, not a mule, like his companion, but a strong hackney for the road, to save his gallant war horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutered for battle, with a chamfron or plaited headpiece upon his head, having a short spike projecting from the front.

On one side of the saddle hung a short battle-ax, richly inlaid with Damascene carving; on the other the rider's plumed headpiece and hood of mail, with a long two-handed sword, used by the chivalry of the period.

Cibber, who played the characters of the Man of Taste, and Squire Headpiece.

To the front of his headpiece was fastened a metal badge, resembling the three-pointed arrow head utilized on old maps to indicate the north.

" "Not if he's got your headpiece on him," he replied, giving me another clap on the shoulder.

But I will confess, my suspicions did not carry me so far as to conjecture that this venerable champion would be in such mighty haste to come into the field, and serve in the quality of an enfant perdu, armed only with a pocket pistol, before his great blunderbuss could be got ready, his old rusty breastplate scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended.

Hooded dials, brightly lighted push-buttons, a telephone headpiece and receiver combined, and switches all lay in easy reach.

The Master laid one hand easily on the rim of the big steering-wheel, flung his cap upon a locker, pulled down the telephone headpiece and snapped it on.

Over his ears a telephone headpiece, which he had slipped on, kept him in close touch with the men in the nacelle, via the steel cable.

But at some of them small West India islands there's a fine opening, Joey says, for a man with a headpiece as can cultivate, and knows what crops require, and I ought to go.

[Illustration: Small Adze with bone headpiece] CHAPTER XVIII