The word "headless" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective that is used to describe something or someone that is lacking a head or having no head. For example, "The headless statue stood in the center of the room."
An elegant university lecturer, a specialist in Marxism and feminism, told me how she went every day to classes at the university, driving past the headless corpses that were regularly pinned to the gates of the institute.
There are no longer girlie shows on the outskirts of the fair, or exhibits of two-headed cows and headless ladies.
Those supermarkets that are still managing to sell the stuff have been charging in the range of 10,000 won (nearly $9) per head; many others have been forced to go headless, their cabbage-shelves bare.
A string of acquisitions followed, taking them into businesses from cement to Jacuzzis.In this section Divorced From clipboards to keyboards Private lines Live by the sword Headless chicken Bullet time A cracking trade Spot the eyeball The bulldozer Reprints Related items Building materials: Concrete plansMay 10th 2007The businesses may have been disparate, but the idea was revolutionary.
Its biggest town, Mingora, which late last year had been a battlefield shelled by the army and littered by militants with headless corpses, appears to have been captured almost without a fight.
Union leaders responded by persuading some 15,000 employees to down tools on May 14th and 15th.In this section Divorced From clipboards to keyboards Private lines Live by the sword Headless chicken Bullet time A cracking trade Spot the eyeball The bulldozer ReprintsMr Obermann hopes to reduce Deutsche Telekom's annual costs by as much as €4.7 billion ($6.4 billion) by 2010.
SIGNS for "Miss Olga Hess, the headless girl how long can science keep her alive?" and "The kid with two bodies and one head" beckon the curious on Coney Island.
Yet one can see the appeal of the solution, from an industry perspective anyway, if it could be made to work (and provided consumers get over their revulsion, but if the choices are Matrix chicken and headless chicken the decision is somewhat easier).
ONCE so teeming that Tamil Tiger rebels deployed "traffic police" at its junctions, Kilinochchi is today a desolate, shell-shocked town of headless buildings and crumbling walls.
Scottish fish-farmers regularly kill seals to protect their nets, and two headless seals washed up on the beach last month.
But pushing that through, while still holding the country together, will be difficult for a headless opposition.
