Definition of "headless"

headless

/ˈhɛdləs/

adjective
not comparable
1. Without a head; decapitated.
2. Without leadership.
  Quotations
  His forsaken soldiers, being now a headless company, and no longer an army to be feared, obtained nevertheless a reasonable composition from the Carthaginians […]
  1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], (please specify |book=1 to 5)
3. (linguistics, of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word.
4. (computing) Running without a graphical user interface; running without any attached output device (e.g., monitor) or input device (e.g., keyboard, mouse).
  Quotations
  /redirect. Used for console redirection in headless servers.
  2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003, Addison-Wesley, page 62
  Routers typically run headless, without a keyboard or monitor.
  2007, Carla Schroder, Linux Networking Cookbook, O’Reilly Media, published 2008, page 47
  This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server […]
  2010, Charles Bell et al., MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers, O'Reilly Media, page 278
5. (of beer) Without a head of foam.
6. (obsolete) Heedless.
  Quotations
  If any one will rashly blame such his choice of old and unwonted words, him may I more justly blame and condemn, either of witless headiness in judging, or of headless hardiness in condemning.
  1579, E. K. (Edward Kirke?), Notes on Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender
  THENOT: Cuddy, I wot thou kenſt little Good, / So vainly to advance thy headleſs Hood.
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,
7. (obsolete, firearms) Rimless, not having a cartridge case rim (flange).

Definition of "headless"

headless

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