a. [UN-1 9.] Destitute or devoid of a head, in various senses.
(a) 1586. J. Hooker, Hist. Irel., 94/1, in Holinshed, II. The most part of those arrowes, which were shot ouer the walles, were vnheaded.
1600. J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, Introd. 36. A kinde of small slender dartes or pikes, some whereof are headed with some kinde mettall, the residue being unheaded.
(b) 1608. Topsell, Serpents, 609. This monster … nor man nor dragon is…, But man unlegged, and snake unheaded.
(c) 1607. Puritaine Widdow, V. iv. 8. Such is the blind besotting in the state of an vnheaded woman thats a widdow.
1673. Temple, Obs. United Prov., Wks. 1720, I. 16. The People were enraged, but awed and unheaded.
