adj. (old: now colloquial).—Shrewd; far-seeing; clever. Also LONG-HEADEDNESS.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.

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  1711.  Spectator, No. 52. But being a LONG-HEADED gentlewoman, I am apt to imagine she has some further design than you have yet penetrated.

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  1725.  A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.

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  1840.  DICKENS, The Old Curiosity Shop, lxvi. Many distinguished characters, called men of the world, LONG-HEADED customers, knowing dogs, shrewd fellows.

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  1871.  J. R. LOWELL, My Study Windows, 126. Ulysses was the type of LONG-HEADEDNESS.

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