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(c)
(Mus.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar
instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is
the finger board or fret board.

3. (Mech.) A reduction in size near
the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck
forming the journal of a shaft.

4. (Bot.) the point where the base of
the stem of a plant arises from the root.

Neck and crop, completely; wholly;
altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.] -- Neck and
neck (Racing), so nearly equal that one cannot
be said to be before the other; very close; even; side by side.
-- Neck of a capital. (Arch.) See
Gorgerin. -- Neck of a cascabel
(Gun.), the part joining the knob to the base of the
breech. -- Neck of a gun, the small part
of the piece between the chase and the swell of the muzzle. --
Neck of a tooth (Anat.), the
constriction between the root and the crown. -- Neck or
nothing (Fig.

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