Short-neck'd

[…] we were reduc’d to make our Extractions in ſhort-neck’d Glaſs-Eggs or Vials exquiſitely ſtop’d […]

In Short-neck’d People the Paſſage between the Heart and the Brain being proportionally ſhort, the Force or Momentum of the Circulation in the Brain, is by ſo much the greater; […]

But “no, he was a short-neck’d, apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.”