flathead (flathed)

and n. I. a. 1. Having an artificially flattened head: applied to certain American Indians. The deformity is produced in infancy by appliances causing pre ure upon the skull from before backward (the more common method), making it flat and retreating in front and protuberant behind, or from above downward, making it flat at the top. It disappears partially or wholly with advance of age, and is said not to injure the intellect. The practice now survives chiefly in the northwest, but was formerly common over both North and South America. 2. [ cap.] Pertaining to the tribe of Indians specifically called Flatheads. See II., 1. II. n. 1. [ cap .] One of a small tribe of American Indians specifically so called, but erroneously, their heads not being flattened, and their true name being Selish . The original home of the Flatheads was in the valley of the Columbia river, but a part of them now live on a reservation in northwestern Montana. They are all nominally Christian i zed and civilized. or denial. He thought with banding brave to keepe the coyle, Or else with flatts and facings mee to foil. Mir. for Mags. Deck-flat ( naut.), a platform or deck of iron or steel, either water-tight or not, but not a complete deck.Double fiat, in music: (a) A tone two half-steps lower than a given tone; the flat of a flat. (b) On the pianoforte, a key next but one below or to the left of a given key. (c) The character bo, which when attached to a note or to a staff-degree lowers its significance two half-steps. flat1 (flat), v.; pret. and pp. flatted, ppr. flatting, [ flatten. Then frothy white appear the flatted seas, And change their colour, changing their disease. He gaff Richard a sorry flatt , That foundryd bacynet and hat. Richard Coer de Lion, 1. 5265. lia.]-3. A snake which flattens its head, as a species of Hetero don; the hog-nosed snake or puff-adder. [Local, U. S.] Swich a flat ! Arthour and Merlin , p. 182. ( Hall i well .) flat4 (flat), v. t. [OF. flater , flatter: see flat ter2 .] To flatter. Flata (fla'tä), n. = E. blow1.] The cing bugs, with semicircular wings, of the family Flatidæ. F. limbata , an Indian species, is an example, of a gra -green color varied with bright red and pure white, and with wings expanding nearly two inches. The blow-snake of Illinois is variously known in other localities as hog-nose, flat - head , viper, and puff-adder. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXIII. 660. [Scotch.] [NL., L. flatus , pp. of flare flat-headed (flat'hed"ed), a. Having a flat head typical genus of wax-produ- flat bill (flat bil), n. 1. A bird of the family or top. This [church] bears date 1477, as appears from an inscription over one of its doors. But this doorway is flat headed, and has lost all med iæval character. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 216.