many headed (menihed"ed)

Having many heads. Applied to mythological beings fabled to have a number of heads on a single body, and in literature referring especially to the Lernæan hydra, called the many headed monster: a phrase hence sometimes used of an excited mob or the ma of the common people, considered as one body moved by many furious or irrational impulses. So, with this bold opposer rushes on This many -headed monster, multitude. Daniel, Civil Wars, ii. many ne (men'i-nes), n. The state or quality of being many in number; numerousne ; multiplicity. Mind, XLI. 60. [Rare.]