[f. LONG a.]
† 1. nonce-use. One who wears his hair long; opposed to ROUNDHEAD. Obs.
1642. (title) Description of Round-Heads and Long Heads.
2. One who has a skull of more than average length; in mod. scientific language spec. one the breadth of whose head is less than four-fifths of its length; a dolichocephalic person.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 2. There were found many Macrocephali among them, that is, such Long-heads as no other Nation had the like.
1704. Swift, Mech. Operat. Spirit, Misc. (1711), 282. Hippocrates tells us that among our Ancestors the Scythians there was a Nation, called Longheads.
1890. Huxley, in 19th Cent., Nov., 757. The tall blond long-heads practically disappear.
1900. Daily News, 31 July, 6/5. The wanderings of the long heads over the Western hemisphere are traced by their monuments.
