Definition of "occiputs" [occiputs]

• Plural form of occiput. (noun)

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• "But he has seen me only once and you never, and I should not care to bet that he will feel the least particle of dismay at the idea of our occiputs getting all mussed up with a black-jack."
• "The late Sumerian sculpture work again presents difficulties in this connection, for the faces and bulging occiputs suggest rather a long-headed than a broad-headed type, and the theory no longer obtains that new habits of life alter skull forms which are usually associated with other distinctive traits in the structure of skeletons."
• "Let the occiputs thus cut off be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man."