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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having many heads.

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Examples

  • II. iii.18 (348,3) many-headed multitude] Hanmer reads, _many-headed_ monster, but without necessity.

    Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Covering 7.5 acres in total, or just less than half of the World Trade Center site's original 16 acres, the memorial is the first part of the massive, many-headed reconstruction plan for ground zero to be completed.

    Steve Rosenbaum: LA Times Gets It Wrong on 9/11 Memorial Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • "We really are like a Frankenstein country," he said, adding that he didn't expect real change until the country's many-headed structure is pruned.

    Bosnian Serb Leader Damps Hopes of Post-Vote Accord Marc Champion 2010

  • Now he was here, although mightily changed in form and aspect, a many-headed, many-limbed, polyglot monster of enormous generative power.

    Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

  • Covering 7.5 acres in total, or just less than half of the World Trade Center site's original 16 acres, the memorial is the first part of the massive, many-headed reconstruction plan for ground zero to be completed.

    Steve Rosenbaum: LA Times Gets It Wrong on 9/11 Memorial Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • Covering 7.5 acres in total, or just less than half of the World Trade Center site's original 16 acres, the memorial is the first part of the massive, many-headed reconstruction plan for ground zero to be completed.

    Steve Rosenbaum: LA Times Gets It Wrong on 9/11 Memorial Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • As someone involved in the movement for social justice – acting against the many-headed hydra of oppression in a kyriarchal culture – it has thus been my personal experience that friendship and the values that underlie it are the only real best way to create effective, lasting social change.

    friends and allies. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2010

  • Covering 7.5 acres in total, or just less than half of the World Trade Center site's original 16 acres, the memorial is the first part of the massive, many-headed reconstruction plan for ground zero to be completed.

    Steve Rosenbaum: LA Times Gets It Wrong on 9/11 Memorial Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • Covering 7.5 acres in total, or just less than half of the World Trade Center site's original 16 acres, the memorial is the first part of the massive, many-headed reconstruction plan for ground zero to be completed.

    Steve Rosenbaum: LA Times Gets It Wrong on 9/11 Memorial Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • Covering 7.5 acres in total, or just less than half of the World Trade Center site's original 16 acres, the memorial is the first part of the massive, many-headed reconstruction plan for ground zero to be completed.

    Steve Rosenbaum: LA Times Gets It Wrong on 9/11 Memorial Steve Rosenbaum 2011

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