beastlihead
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[edit]Noun
[edit]beastlihead (uncountable)
- (obsolete, nonce word) Beastliness (as a mock title or style akin to "Highness" or "Holiness").
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
- But I be relieved by your beastlyhead
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “beastlihead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)