roundheadn.adj.

1641 R. Brathwait Mercurius Britanicus iv. sig. D4^v Lord, with what pricked up eares, these round heads harken to their oratour Prinner and admire in hearing him.

1642 (title) A sad warning to all prophane, malignant spirits; who reproach true Protestants with the name of Round-heads.

1651 W. Lilly Monarchy or no Monarchy 107 The Courtiers againe, wearing long Haire and locks, and alwayes Sworded, at last were called by these men [sc. the Puritans] Cavaliers; and so after this broken language had been used a while, all that adhered unto the Parlament were termed Round-heads; all that tooke part or appeared for his Majestie, Cavaliers, few of the vulgar knowing the sence of the word Cavalier.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 125. ¶1 When the Feuds ran high between the Round-heads and Cavaliers.

1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 53 The Whigs were not Roundheads, tho' the Measures They pursued..gave Occasion to the Suspicions I have mentioned.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 184 My cockade and my broadsword are my commission, and a better one than ever Old Nol gave to his round-heads.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak lxxv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 82 Far below the Roundhead rode, And humm'd a surly hymn.

1930 W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman 1066 & All That xxxv. 63 We come at last to the Central Period of English History..consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).

1976 J. H. Wilson Court Satires of Restoration 128 At the Battle of Edgehill, October 23, 1642, Lord Wharton's regiment of Roundheads was routed.

2005 J. Jackson World on Fire (2007) i. 22 The sympathies of West Riding had been with Cromwell and the Roundheads during the Civil War.

1643 in C. Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds (1885) 110 Her colour is most comely, And a Round-head is she [sc. a cuckoo], And yet no sect She doth respect.

1793 C. Smith Old Manor House III. ix. 211 Considering the Americans as rebels and round heads, to conquer them seemed to her to be not only a national cause, but one in which her family were particularly bound to engage.

1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 102/1 They held their heads above the Dutch traders of New York, and the money-getting Roundheads of Pennsylvania and New England.

1865 U.S. Service Mag. July 31 The Yankees were only canting Puritans, snivelling Roundheads.

1976 Listener 5 Feb. 140/3 Under the Cromwellian leadership of Peter Hall, the roundheads of the new professionalism drove the cavalier dilettanti largely from the scene.

1992 National Forum 1 Nov. 26/2 The Hefner vision..peaked out when its cavalier rebellion against today's puritan roundheads began to look surprisingly tame for some and too unforgivably male chauvinist for others.

1828 J. Hancock in Zool. Jrnl. 4 241 These species are distinguished by the negroes [in Demerara] under the titles of the Flat-head and Round-head... They are the Hassar of the Arowaks.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 17/1 The round-head forms its nest of grass.

1890 Cent. Dict. Round-head, the weakfish or squeteague, Cynoscion regalis. [Virginia.]

1939 Fishes (Nat. Geogr. Soc.) 93 The kingfish has two immediate relatives on the Atlantic coast... Besides kingfish they are called whiting,..roundheads, sea minks, and sea mullets... The local names apply alike to each.

1985 M. R. Roberts Tidemarsh Guide Fishes 205 M. saxatilis—northern kingfish, roundhead, sea mullet, barb.

1867 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. 5 p. cxxx The long-headed race might survive long after their subjugation by the round heads.

1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. i. v. 106 Mounds differing in type from those of the round-heads.

1918 Outlook 20 Nov. 457/1 The battle of the races is one of long heads against round heads.

2006 S. Arvidsson Aryan Idols v. 277 Some of the primary herding culture's round-heads eventually wandered eastward, where they were united with agriculturalists.

1895 Dial. Notes 1 393 Roundhead, a Swede.

1913 World's Work July 349/1 Some mining captain established a precedent by importing a carload of Finns. The old-timers called them ‘roundheads’.

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 38 Swedes are ‘roundheads’ or ‘salve eaters’.

1961 J. Peacock Valhalla 14 Railroad people, Shanty Irish, Bohunk, Roundheads.

1976 ‘Trevanian’ Main (1977) iii. 57 ‘He's not a bad type, for a Roundhead,’ Gaspard says.

1989 M. C. Smith Polar Star 329 ‘First one to spill gets hit.’ Arkady frowned. ‘The Norwegian game again?’ ‘Yes. They don't call them roundheads for nothing.’

1643 Cheshires Successe ii. 3 They bid them throw downe their Armes, and let the Round-head Rogues try for quarter.

1682 T. D'Urfey Royalist i. i. 1 Stealing, why that's the business of the nation. The Roundhead party make a Trade on't.

1710 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus: 2nd Pt. v. 62 When the Roundhead Rabble Reign'd, And Holy Things were much profan'd; They burnt all Popish Trinkets.

1764 D. E. Baker Compan. to Play-house I. at Committee This Comedy..was intended to throw and Idea of the utmost Odium on the Round-head Party and their Proceedings.

1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. i. 14 The roundhead rascals! I wish I had my sword in their stomachs.

1871 All Year Round 13 May 560/1 The ghost of Captain Forester, a Roundhead officer..was said to appear nightly at the Botcherby battery.

1908 A. W. Tilby Eng. People Overseas I. ii. 72 The former was strongly cavalier and episcopal; the latter was as strongly roundhead and puritan.

1985 D. Underdown Revel, Riot & Rebellion vii. 194 The fragmentary records from the 1650s disclose more roundhead pensioners..in places like Chippenham and Melksham.

2007 D. Stanford Norfolk Churches 41 The numerous small holes in the panels were caused by the bullets of Roundhead soldiers.

1695 G. Hickes Some Disc. upon Dr. Burnet & Dr. Tillotson 63 The Corner of the College..was called the Round-head Corner.

1742 London Mag. Sept. 445/1 The old Round-head Motto of, Lord, open thou my Lips, and my Mouth shall shew forth they Praise.

1777 Lett. Henrietta to Morvina II. 211 Round-head principles, city ribaldry, and American politics.

1849 B. E. G. Warburton Mem. Prince Rupert, & Cavaliers II. iii. 318 The French ambassador..had exhibited very Roundhead predilections.

1865 W. F. Collier Pictures of Periods 212 His garb was Puritan..; but his hair was not trimmed close after the Roundhead fashion.

1963 Times 11 Feb. 6/7 Now that industry is ‘dishoarding’ labour and achieving results more effectively than Roundhead policy at the Treasury.

1986 Heritage Outlook Jan.–Feb. 21/2 Now a quiet back-water, it was once the scene of bloody and noisy royalist and roundhead battles.

2004 J. Miller Stuarts (2006) v. 174 In the Roundhead stronghold of Taunton, the mayor closed the meeting houses.

1842 Phrenol. Jrnl. 15 233 It is conceded by all persons acquainted with the natives of NW. America, that the Flatheads evince as much intellectual and moral capability as their round-head neighbours.

1868 J. P. Lesley Man's Origin & Destiny x. 268 Dr Thurnam read a paper on the round-head people of the round barrows (corresponding to the hügelgräber of Germany) and the long-headed people of the long barrows.

1907 J. Ward in J. C. Cox Mem. Old Derbyshire 55 The intrusion of a round-head people upon the Neolithic long-heads.

1937 N. Goold-Verschoyle Round Heads, Peak Heads i, in Internat. Lit. May 9/1 In Yahoo There are two people living side by side Of quite a different racial origin... The Roundhead race Is called by Iberin the race of Czuchs.

2006 P. Rijpkema tr. W. H. Zitman Egypt vi. 189 The painting of ‘the Swimmer’, i.e. the star constellation Nekhet, was carried out by Round Head people more than 8,000 years ago.

1734 W. Salmon Palladio Londinensis i. vi. 64/2 Round-Head Nails are sold by the 1000.

1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2174 Round-head nails, for fastening on hinges.

1809 L. de Tousard Amer. Artillerist's Compan. II. vi. 186 Two round head bolts; two cap-squares [etc.].

1880 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 16 Dec. 8/2 The corner irons are black, and put on with round head screws.

1976 Woman's Day (N.Y.) Nov. 158 Following construction detail, assemble legs and stretcher with 3″ roundhead stove bolts and nuts.

1994 B. Palmer How to restore your Harley-Davidson 500/1 Never use a flat-topped pan-head screw for a round-head screw.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 276/1 Columns..are employed as piers to support the arches (not round-head, but pointed).

1878 Bournemouth to Bridgenorth in Yellow Cart iv. 27 Round the chancel there is an arcade of interlaced round-head arches.

1906 W. Willis-Bund & W. Page Victoria Hist. Worcester II. 143/1 An arcade of round-head arches.

1917 Jrnl. Engineers Club St. Louis 2 30 The rear facade has a small round head door and a small window on each side.

2005 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Property section) 1 The family bathroom is in a room with a tall round head window.