Round head (roundhed)

[ liers, in allusion to the Puritans' custom of wear- ing their hair closely cut, while the Cavaliers usually wore theirs in long ringlets. The Round- heads were one of the two great parties in English politics first formed about 1641, and continued under the succeed ing names of Whigs and Liberals, as opposed to the Cava- liers, Tories, and Conservatives respectively. But our Scene's London now; and by the rout We perish, if the Round heads be about. Cowley, The Guardian, Prol. 2. [ l . c .] The weakfish or squeteague, Cynoscion regal is . [Virginia.] round-headed (round'hed"ed), a . [ round1 + head +-ed2.] 1. Having a round head or top: as, a round - headed nail or rivet. Roundheaded arches and windows. Bp. Lowth , Life of Wykeham, § 6. (Latham.) Above was a simple round - headed clerestory, and out- side are the same slight beginnings of ornamental arcades. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 104. As doth the billow there upon Charybdis, That breaks itself on that which it encounters, So here the folk must dance their roundelay . 2. Hence, having the hair of the head cut short; Long fellow , tr. of Dante's Inferno, vii. 24. close-cropped; specifically, belonging or per- IMG:content-2525.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors] a, head, in use made red-hot and pa ed over the joint to be smoothed until the latter is sufficiently heated for the application of the solder; bb, handle. with a bulbous head, for finishing soldered work.