Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A species of lady's-slipper or moccasin-flower, Cypripedium arietinum, a rare plant of northern swamps in North America.
- noun A seed of the chick-pea, Cicer arietinum.
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- noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
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Examples
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Brian Dettmer's ram's-head sculpture is made from melted cassette tapes.
Boing Boing 2007
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Their fronts are hidden by hangings of tartan cloth; the windows are decked with sporrans, dirks, cairngorm plaid-brooches, ram's-head snuff-boxes, bullocks 'horns and skean dhus.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869
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The ancient epicures expatiate on ram's-head pies, stuffed fowls, boiled calf, and pastry stuffed with raisins and nuts.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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Stay — the buirs-head, the ram's-head» and the ilag's-hcad, dear Mr, Pinch, Nay, if every hufbaad's proper fign hece. were vifible, they would be all alike ...
Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays... 1780
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