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Negro-head
Also negrohead.
†1. A nest of tree-ants. Obs. rare—1.
1781Smeathman in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 161 note, The colour of these nests..is black, from which, and their irregular surface and orbicular shape, they have been called Negro Heads by our first writers on the Carribbee Islands.
2. A strong plug tobacco of a black colour.
1839‘J. Fume’ Paper on Tobacco 116 A few iron nerved smokers occasionally take a pipe of negrohead. 1851Catal. Gt. Exhib. I. 203 Cavendish, negro head, and other forms of tobacco. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xl, A handful of loose tobacco of the kind that is called Negro-head.
attrib.1809‘D. Knickerbocker’ Hist. N.Y. II. vi. ii. 88 He..thrust a prodigious quid of negro head tobacco into his left cheek. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Negrohead-tobacco, tobacco softened with molasses or syrup and pressed into cakes, generally called Cavendish. 1892W. Pike Barren Ground 29 The Hudson's Bay negrohead tobacco.
3. An inferior quality of india-rubber.
1881Encycl. Brit. XIII. 836/2 The scrapings from the tree..are mixed with the residues of the collecting pots.., and are made up into large rounded balls, which form the inferior commercial quality called ‘negrohead.’ 1896Daily News 4 Apr. 2/1 The proportions of ‘fine’ and ‘negrohead’ rubbers depend on the appliances and care of the collectors.
4. Negrohead beech, the Australian evergreen or myrtle beech, Fagus Cunninghamii.
1889J. H. Maiden Usef. Native Pl. 534 Negro-head Beech..is a hard richly-coloured furniture wood, and the warty protuberances on the trunk..afford a most beautiful figure.
5. = niggerhead 2.
1910F. Wood-Jones Coral & Atolls xxiv. 284 There are many enormous ‘negro heads’ upon the windward barrier flats of the Southern islands of the Cocos-Keeling atoll. 1943Baker Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 54 Nigger⁓head, an anthill-like peak of coral showing above water. Also called ‘negro-head’. 1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation xiii. 280 Reefs are broken into blocks, the large mushroom-shaped fragments are thrown up onto the beaches, where they form ‘negro⁓heads’. |