a. (Stress equal or variable.) a. Having a flat head or top. † b. Wearing a flat hat.
1652. Ld. Digby, Elvira, III. (1667), 36.
| A sharp-pointed Hat, | |
| (Now that you see the Gallants all Flat headed,) | |
| Appears not so ridiculous, as Yonker, | |
| Without a love Intreegue, to Introduce, | |
| And sparkefy him there. |
1752. Sir J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 103. The larger, smooth, and flat-headed Amphisbæna.
1853. Sir H. Douglas, Milit. Bridges (ed. 3), iv. 185. Flat-headed boats should not be used unless their breadth is very small.
1880. G. Meredith, Trag. Com., 242. I have not a clod’s perception, I have not a spark of sense to distinguish me from a flat-headed Lapp, if she refuses:—call me a mountebank who has gained his position by clever tumbling; a lucky gamester; whatever plays blind with chance.
1881. Freeman, Subj. Venice, 216. This doorway is flat-headed and has lost all mediæval character, while the cloister itself is a graceful design with columns and trefoil arches, which in other lands one would attribute to a much earlier date.
