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ˈred-head, ˈredhead
1. attrib. Having a red head or hair.
1664Wood Life 26 Jan. (O.H.S.) II. 4 Read the red-hed boy. 1738E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 61 The Red Head Sparrow. 1892in Cozens-Hardy Broad Norf. (1893) 46 Pochard, male sometimes called Redhead Drake.
2. One who has a red head.
a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. (1849) II. 444 There is the sect of Nakhoodi..who surpass seventy times all the impiety of the Redheads (the Persians). 1893Kohler in Barrows Parlt. Relig. I. 366 You see man divided into groups of blackheads (the race of Ham) and redheads (Adam).
b. A name given to various birds, esp. the American pochard and red-headed woodpecker.
1814Wilson Amer. Ornith. VIII. 110 The Red-head is twenty inches in length. 1831Audubon Ornith. Biog. I. 145 As soon as the Red-heads have begun to visit a Cherry or Apple tree, a pole is placed along the trunk of the tree. 1858Lewis in Youatt Dog (N.Y.) iii. 89 The Chesapeake bay and its tributaries, where the canvass-back and red-heads resort in such numerous quantities every fall. 1863Wise New Forest 312 Pochard..known along the coast as the ‘redhead’ and ‘ker’. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 146/1 In New South Wales æ[gintha] temporalis is known as the Red-head.
3. Bot. Bastard ipecacuanha. ? Obs.
1798Nemnich Polygl. Lex. v. 867 Redhead, Asclepias currasavica. |