Synonyms:
headless
Meaning: not having a head or formed without a head ; "the headless horseman"; "brads are headless nails"
Usage examples
He was tracking the headless rider.
Still closely scrutinising the trail of the Headless Horseman, Calhoun trotted past.
If there was reason before for taking the trail of the Headless Horseman, it was redoubled now.
Rejecting many tales told of the Headless Horseman--most of them too grotesque to be recorded--one truthful episode must needs be given-- since it forms an essential chapter of this strange history.
She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart, and found herself more confirmed by the reports which she heard of the constancy of his end, than shaken by so tender and melancholy a spectacle.
He is the same that carries the headless rider; and this weird equestrian is still bestriding him, with but little appearance of change, either in apparel or attitude, since first seen by the searchers.
Still continuing his fleet career, the Headless Horseman galloped on over the prairie--Zeb Stump following only with his eyes; and not until he had passed out of sight, behind some straggling groves of mezquite, did the backwoodsman abandon his kneeling position.