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Neck

,—that slender part that is situated between the head and trunk of the body, on which the gentle axe, and gentler guillotine, glided across, and produced a solution of continuity, in the persons of the Tyrants Charles the First and Louis the Last.

Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell

That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Macbeth.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Neck