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noun

Redhead n.

A person having red hair.

(Zool.)

(a)

An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck.

(b)

The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.

(Bot.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.

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Etymology of 'Redhead'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Redhead" Quotes from Famous Books

... with her hands and wept. Then he began to stroke her and kiss her. "Child, only cease your weeping. You are my fair little bride. Only be happy again." And in his distress he said, "I will never do it again. Only laugh again." At last when he could think of no more cajoling names, he called her "Redhead." Then she had to laugh, for that was the name of the best cow, which stood first in the stalls. Now she lifted her head and gazed long at him without moving. Thus Joern Uhl came rightly to that tenderness and comfort which he ...

— Sleep Walking and Moon Walking - A Medico-Literary Study • Isidor Isaak Sadger

... belted over full trousers which gathered into white cruiser boots. The comfortable uniforms concealed any slight differences in build. The twelve were all lean of face, with hair cropped to the regulation half inch. Rip was the only redhead among them. ...

— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage

... right were cast in a different mold. Mary McCready was a big husky redhead of twelve, with a face full of freckles and an infectious laugh, and Tommy Miller, a few months younger, was just an average, extroverted, well adjusted youngster, noisy and restless, ...

— Junior Achievement • William Lee