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), at all risks. -- Neck
verse. (a) The verse formerly read to
entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse
of the fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc. Sir W.
Scott. (b) Hence, a verse or saying, the
utterance of which decides one's fate; a shibboleth.

These words, "bread and cheese," were their neck
verse or shibboleth to distinguish them; all pronouncing "broad
and cause," being presently put to death.

Fuller.

-- Neck yoke. (a) A bar by
which the end of the tongue of a wagon or carriage is suspended from
the collars of the harnesses. (b) A device
with projecting arms for carrying things (as buckets of water or sap)
suspended from one's shoulders. -- On the neck
of, immediately after; following closely.
"Commiting one sin on the neck of another." W. Perkins.
-- Stiff neck, obstinacy in evil or wrong;
inflexible obstinacy; contumacy. "I know thy rebellion, and thy
stiff neck." Deut. xxxi. 27.

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