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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Beheaded

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Beheading

[OE.

bihefden

, AS.

beheáfdian

; pref.

be-

heáfod

head. See

To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

Verb.

behed'. [be and head.]

To cut off the head; to sever the head from the body, with a cutting instrument; appropriately used of the execution of men for crimes.