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† velvet head Obs.
Also 6 vellet head, 7 velvet-head.
[f. velvet n. 2.]
1. The head of a deer while the horns are still covered with velvet. Also transf. of a kid (quot. 1579).
1576Turberv. Venerie 244 His heade is called then a veluet heade. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 185 His Vellet head began to shoote out, And his wrethed hornes gan newly sprout. 1607Topsell Hist. Four-f. Beasts 124 Hornes..couered with a rough skinne, which the hunters for honours sake call a Veluet head. 1626Breton Fantasticks Wks. (Grosart) II. 12/1 The veluet heads of the Forrests fall at the loose of the Crosse-bow. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. (1677) 65 If you geld him when he hath a Velvet-head, it will ever be so, without fraying or burnishing.
2. Applied contemptuously to a person.
1630B. Jonson New Inn ii. ii, What says old velvet-head?
Hence † velvet-headed a. In quots. fig. Obs.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. vi. 23 Roman Prelacy in these younger times was but Velvet-headed. 1650B. Discolliminium 41 You will expose your Flocks to all the new⁓fangled Errours..that bud so fast, out of the Brow-antlers of our velvet-headed Brockets. 1678Marvell Growth Popery 6 He lays the same claim still,..and though Velvet-headed hath the more itch to be pushing. |