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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Roundhead  \Round"head`\,  n.  (Eng.  Hist.) 
  A  nickname  for  a  Puritan.  See  Roundheads,  the  in  the 
  Dictionary  of  Noted  Names  in  Fiction.  --Toone. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  roundhead 
  n  1:  a  brachycephalic  person 
  2:  a  supporter  of  Parliament  and  Oliver  Cromwell  during  the 
  English  Civil  War  [syn:  {Roundhead}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Roundhead,  OH 
  Zip  code(s):  43346 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  ROUNDHEAD,  n.  A  member  of  the  Parliamentarian  party  in  the  English 
  civil  war  --  so  called  from  his  habit  of  wearing  his  hair  short, 
  whereas  his  enemy,  the  Cavalier,  wore  his  long.  There  were  other 
  points  of  difference  between  them  but  the  fashion  in  hair  was  the 
  fundamental  cause  of  quarrel.  The  Cavaliers  were  royalists  because 
  the  king,  an  indolent  fellow,  found  it  more  convenient  to  let  his  hair 
  grow  than  to  wash  his  neck.  This  the  Roundheads,  who  were  mostly 
  barbers  and  soap-boilers,  deemed  an  injury  to  trade  and  the  royal 
  neck  was  therefore  the  object  of  their  particular  indignation. 
  Descendants  of  the  belligerents  now  wear  their  hair  all  alike,  but  the 
  fires  of  animosity  enkindled  in  that  ancient  strife  smoulder  to  this 
  day  beneath  the  snows  of  British  civility. 
 
 




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