Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small white alto-cumulus or cirro-cumulus cloud, of a round shape and compact texture: distinct from the clouds of the mackerel sky, which are thinner and of a paler tint, shading off to white on one side, but fading into the delicate blue of the sky on the other.
- noun A negro: so called from the woolly hair of his head.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Low A negro.
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Examples
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He got the woolly-head by the middle, and away he went, the poor devil, head, shoulders, and arms out of the water all the time, screeching in a heart-rending way.
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He got the woolly-head by the middle, and away he went, the poor devil, head, shoulders, and arms out of the water all the time, screeching in a heart-rending way.
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We droned along until the woolly-head marchers were again in sight.
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Little woolly-head clapped his hands and screamed.
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When I'm on de one side de jump-high is on de oder; and if I go back widout one he'll cuss me for a d---- d stumbling woolly-head.
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He got the woolly-head by the middle, and away he went, the poor devil, head, shoulders, and arms out of the water all the time, screeching in a heart-rending way.
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Freckle could see the old man now, with a tear poised on his tangled eyelashes, asking a farewell benediction from the front portico, upon himself departing, while every woolly-head was uncovered, and the whole assembled "property" had groaned "Amen" together.
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"Did you, Sam?" said Mr. Washington, putting the same question to another little woolly-head.
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