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Flathead   /flˈæthˌɛd/   Listen
Flathead

noun
1.
Food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards.
2.
Pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout.



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"Flathead" Quotes from Famous Books



... all for two dollars—only two dollars a box. In short, ladies and gentlemen," concluded the persevering fellow sententiously, "you have my warranty that this sarve heals all curable diseases; and if it be true, as the famous Doctor Flathead says, that there be only two sorts of maladies—them of which people die, and them of which they get well—you must see how important it is to have a box of the Palmyra 'intment. Best of all sarves, ladies! ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various

... surviving members of the tribe have particularly flat heads, and all deny emphatically the statement that nature is ever interfered with in the manner stated. These Indians call themselves "Selish," a name apparently without reason or derivation. The Flathead Reservation was formed about forty years ago. On three sides it is walled in by high mountains, and it consists of about 2,240 square miles of territory. The railway station, Arlee, is so named after the last war chief of the Flatheads. Passengers are often amused by the gaudily ...
— My Native Land • James Cox

... wish to repeal universal laws, and to patch our natural skins for us, as if they always wanted mending. That while they talk so much of the godlike nature of man, they should so forget the human natures of men! The Flathead Indian squeezes the child's skull between two boards till it shapes itself into a kind of gambrel roof against the rain,—the readiest way, perhaps, of uniforming a tribe that wear no clothes. But does he alter the inside of the head? Not a hair's-breadth. You remember the striking ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell



Words linked to "Flathead" :   Platycephalidae, family Platycephalidae, Percophidae, percoidean, percoid fish, scorpaenoid fish, percoid, scorpaenoid, family Percophidae



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