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| Head |
The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. |
n. |
| Head |
The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. |
n. |
| Head |
The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. |
n. |
| Head |
The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. |
n. |
| Head |
The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. |
n. |
| Head |
Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. |
n. |
| Head |
The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. |
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| Head |
The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. |
n. |
| Head |
A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. |
n. |
| Head |
A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. |
n. |
| Head |
Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. |
n. |
| Head |
Power; armed force. |
n. |
| Head |
A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. |
n. |
| Head |
An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. |
n. |
| Head |
A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. |
n. |
| Head |
A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. |
n. |
| Head |
The antlers of a deer. |
n. |
| Head |
A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. |
n. |
| Head |
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. |
n. |
| Head |
Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook. |
a. |
| Head |
To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot. |
v. t. |
| Head |
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. |
v. t. |
| Head |
To behead; to decapitate. |
v. t. |
| Head |
To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees. |
v. t. |
| Head |
To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship. |
v. t. |
| Head |
To set on the head; as, to head a cask. |
v. t. |
| Head |
To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river. |
v. i. |
| Head |
To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head? |
v. i. |
| Head |
To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early. |
v. i. |
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| Addle-head |
Alt. of Addle-pate |
n. |
| Addle-headed |
Alt. of Addle-pated |
a. |
| Ahead |
In or to the front; in advance; onward. |
adv. |
| Ahead |
Headlong; without restraint. |
adv. |
| Arrowhead |
The head of an arrow. |
n. |
| Arrowhead |
An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves. |
n. |
| Arrowheaded |
Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform. |
a. |
| Baldhead |
A person whose head is bald. |
n. |
| Baldhead |
A white-headed variety of pigeon. |
n. |
| Baldheaded |
Having a bald head. |
a. |
| Bareheaded |
Alt. of Barehead |
a. & adv. |
| Barehead |
Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl. |
a. & adv. |
| Beakhead |
An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. |
n. |
| Beakhead |
A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew. |
n. |
| Beakhead |
Same as Beak, 3. |
n. |
| Beastlihead |
Beastliness. |
n. |
| Beetlehead |
A stupid fellow; a blockhead. |
n. |
| Beetlehead |
The black-bellied plover, or bullhead [Squatarola helvetica]. See Plover. |
n. |
| Beetle-headed |
Dull; stupid. |
a. |
| Beheaded |
of Behead |
imp. & p. p. |
| Beheading |
of Behead |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
| Behead |
To sever the head from; to take off the head of. |
v. t. |
| Beheadal |
Beheading. |
n. |
| Billethead |
A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off. |
n. |
| Billhead |
A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts. |
n. |
| Blackhead |
The scaup duck. |
n. |
| Blockhead |
A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. |
n. |
| Blockheaded |
Stupid; dull. |
a. |
| Blockheadism |
That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. |
n. |
| Bluff-headed |
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. |
a. |
| Blunderhead |
A stupid, blundering fellow. |
n. |
