Headless

Like a headless chicken.

Tom is running around like a headless chicken.

He is running around like a headless chicken.

The horseman is headless.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

I'm going to run around like a headless chicken cleaning up this place because my girlfriend is coming over this evening.

Such close had Priam's fortunes; so his days / were finished, such the bitter end he found, / now doomed by Fate with dying eyes to gaze / on Troy in flames and ruin all around, / and Pergamus laid level with the ground. / Lo, he to whom once Asia bowed the knee, / proud lord of many peoples, far-renowned, / now left to welter by the rolling sea, / a huge and headless trunk, a nameless corpse is he.

The police found a headless corpse in the park near my house.

One statue is armless and the other is headless.

How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?

headless invertebrates

a headless nail;   a headless set screw

The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.

His forsaken soldiers, being now a headless company, and no longer an army to be feared, obtained nevertheless a reasonable composition from the Carthaginians […]

/redirect. Used for console redirection in headless servers.

Routers typically run headless, without a keyboard or monitor.

This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server,[…]

1579, E. K. (Edward Kirke?), Notes on Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender If any one will rashly blame such his choice of old and unwonted words, him may I more justly blame and condemn, either of witless headiness in judging, or of headless hardiness in condemning.

THENOT: Cuddy, I wot thou kenſt little Good, / So vainly to advance thy headleſs Hood.

A headless shell doesn't have a flange.