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Head
HEAD, n. hed.
1. The uppermost part of the human body, or the foremost part of the body of prone and creeping animals. This part of the human body contains the organs of hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling; it contains also the brain, which is supposed to be the seat of the intellectual powers, and of sensation. Hence the head is the chief or more important part, and is used for the whole person, in the phrase, let the evil fall on my head.
2. An animal; an individual; as,the tax was raised by a certain rate per head. And we use the singular number to express many. The herd contains twenty head of oxen.
Thirty thousand head of swine.
3. A chief; a principal person; a leader; a commander; one who has the first rank or place,and to whom others are subordinate; as the head of an army; the head of a sect or party. Eph 5.
4. The first place; the place of honor, or of command. The lord mayor sat at the head of the table. The general marched at the head of his troops.
5. Countenance; presence; in the phrases, to hide the head, to show the head.
6. Understanding; faculties of the mind; sometimes in a ludicrous sense; as, a man has a good head, or a strong head. These men laid their heads together to form the scheme. Never trouble your head about this affair. So we say, to beat the head; to break the head; that is, to study hard, to exercise the understanding or mental faculties.
7. Face; front; forepart.
The ravishers turn head, the fight renews. [Unusual.]
8. Resistance; successful opposition; in the phrase, to make head against, that is, to advance, or resist with success.
9. Spontaneous will or resolution; in the phrases, of his own head, on their own head. But of is more usual than on.
10. State of a deer's horns by which his age is known. The buck is called, the fifth year, a buck of the first head.
11. The top of a thing, especially when larger than the rest of the thing; as the head of a spear; the head of a cabbage; the head of a nail; the head of a mast.
12. The forepart of a thing, as the head of a ship, which includes the bows on both sides; also,the ornamental figure or image erected on or before the stem of a ship.
13. The blade or cutting part of an ax, distinct from the helve.
14. That which rises on the top; as the head or yeast of beer.
15. The upper part of a bed, or bed-stead.
16. The brain.
They turn their heads to imitate the sun.
17. The dress of the head; as a laced head. [Unusual.]
18. The principal source of a stream; as the head of the Nile.
19. Altitude of water in ponds, as applicable to the driving of mill-wheels. The mill has a good head of water.
20. Topic of discourse; chief point or subject; a summary; as the heads of a discourse or treatise.
21. Crisis; pitch; highth. The disease has grown to such a head as to threaten life.
22. Influence; force; strength; pitch. The sedition got to such a head as not to be easily quelled.
23. Body; conflux.
24. Power; armed force.
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
25. Liberty; freedom from restrain; as, to give a horse the head. Hence,
26. License; freedom from check, control or restraint.
Children should not have their heads.
He has too long given his unruly passions the head.
27. The hair of the head; as a head of hair.
28. The top of corn or other plant; the part on which the seed grows.
29. The end, or the boards that form the end; as the head of a cask.
30. The part most remote from the mouth or opening into the sea; as the head of a bay, gulf or creek.
31. The maturated part of an ulcer or boil; hence, to come to a head, is to suppurate.
Head and ears, a phrase denoting the whole person, especially when referring to immersion. He plunged head and ears into the water. He was head and ears in debt, that is, completely overwhelmed.
Head and shoulders, by force; violently; as, to drag one head and shoulders.
They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.
Head or tail, or head nor tail, uncertain; not reducible to certainty.
Head, as an adj. or in composition, chief; principal; as a head workman.
By the head, in seamen's language, denotes the state of a ship laden too deeply at the fore-end.
HEAD, v.t. hed. To lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army; to head an expedition; to head a riot.
1. To behead; to decapitate. [Unusual.]
2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
3. To lop; as, to head trees.
4. To go in front of; to get into the front; as, to head a drove of cattle.
5. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
6. To oppose; to veer round and blow in opposition to the course of a ship;as, the wind heads us.
HEAD, v.i. hed. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
A broad river that heads in the great Blue Ridge of mountains.
head appears in definitions for these words:
Aaronic Abada Abagun Aborea Abreast Abstract Abutment Abuttal Accubation Accusation Acephalous Acephalus Acetabulum Ache Achor Acipenser Acorn Acroter Acupuncture Admiral Adoration Ady Affair Afflux Afore Ahead Aicurus Ajuru-curau Ake Alee Alembic Algol Aloft Aludel Ammodyte Amphisben Anaca Analysis Anchor Angel Angel-fish Angelites Angor Anhima Anoint Antennae Antler Aorta Apogon Apostolics Arc Argument Arrow-head Arthrodia Artichoke Ashwednesday Aspic Ass-head Auriga Awning Ax Babyroussa Backstays Bald Baldness Bare Bareheaded Barrel Barshot Bass Bastards Battering-ram Bay Beal Beam Bearing-cloth Beck Beduck Beech Beet-rave Beetle-head Beetle-headed Beguin Behead Beheaded Beheading Belly Benedictines Benjamin Bicipital Biggel Biggin Bird Bison Bless Blockhead Blood Blue-cap Bluff Blunderhead Bobbin Body Bolster Bolt-head Bolt-rope Bonnet Borough Borough-holder Borsholder Bossy Bow Box Boxed Brace Brad Brain Brank Bridle Bridling Bristle Broach Broom-corn Brow Browbound Browless Brownist Budge-barrel Buffel Buffle-head Buffle-headed Bufonite Build Bulbed Bulk-head Bull Bull-head Bump Burbot Burr Bust Butt Cabbage Caboshed Cachalot Calash Calendar Camel Camelopard Camphor-tree Canopy Cap Cape Capital Capitate Capitation Capite Capitulate Capitulation Captain Capuchin Capuchins Carotid Carry Cartilaginous Caruncle Cask Cassowary Cast Cathedral Caul Cephalalgic Cephalalgy Cephalic Cerebel Cetaceous Change Chapless Chase Cheek Cherub Chevage Chief Chieftain Chieftainry Chimera Chop Chub Chuckle-head Circumferentor Citron-tree Clerk Club-headed Coal-mouse Cob Cock Cockroach Coif Coiffure Cold-finch Comb Combing Commendam Commissary Commode Commonplace Compendium Complain Complete Comprehensive Conceit Condyloid Consolidate Cop Cope Copped Copple-stones Corbel Cordate Cordated Cormorant Cornel Cornel-tree Cornelian-tree Corner Cornet Coronal Coronary Coronet Corporal Corporation Corymb Coryphene Costard Couchant Counsel Coverchief Coxcomb Crane-fly Crest Cringle Crown Crutch Cruyshage Cucurbit Cut-water Cyclopedia Cycopede Dandruff Dash Deacon Dean Death Decapitate Declination Decline Decollation Defluxion Delineate Depth Diadem Digest Digesting Digraph Disease Dishevel Disorder Dissever Distempered Dive Diver Dizziness Dizzy Docket Dodo Dog Dolphin Doree Double-headed Downwards Dozy Dragonet Dragons-head Dropsy Duck Eagle-stone Ear Echinus Eel Effigy Egret Eld Elevation Elops Ember-goose Employ Employment Emptiness Empty End Ensign Enterology Enumeration Equine Eryngo Estate Evade Exert Expose Extremity Face Fall Family Fatherlasher Fearfully Felucca Ferule Fether Fid Fieldfare Fig Filial Fillet Firmament Fishing-frog Flare Flourish Flower Fontange For Forehead Foreland Forelock Forerunner Forestay Foretop Forewoman Form Fount Fray From Frosted Frosty Full Full-drive Fungiform G Galley Gargil Garland General Giddily Giddiness Giddy Gill Gilthead Glome Glory Go Godwit Granit Gray-headed Grudge Gryphite Guinea-hen Gulaund Gurnard Guy Haggess Hair Hairlace Hairpowder Halberd Halibut Halter Hammer Hand Hang Hard Hardhead Harpoon Harvest-lord Hastate Hat Haul Hawk Head Head-piece Head-sail Head-sea Headach Headband Headdress Headed Header Headfast Headfirst Headgear Headiness Heading Headless Headlong Headmost Headshake Headsman Headstall Headstone Headstrong Headtire Headway Heady Heave Helmed Hemicrany Her High Hinder Hit Hoariness Hoary Hobnail Hold Honor Hood Hoopoe Horn Hornowl Horseshoe-head Hotmouthed Hotspur Hotspurred Hounds Humming-bird Hurl Huso Hyads Hydatid Hydra Hydrocephalus Idiopathic Idleheaded Imagine Immolate Impend Imperial Imposition Impress Improvable Inclination Incline Innoxious Instruct Intaglio Inventive Inviolability Jararaca Joint Jole Kan Kerchief Knock Knotty Lamprey Languish Languishment Larboard Lautu Lay Lie Lift Light-brain Lightheaded Lightheadedness Ling Lintel Lion Little Lob Loftily Lofty Loggerhead Logical Longitudinal Luff Lute Madness Maggoty-headed Make Many-headed Master Mazard Megrim Mere Metonymy Milliner Millinery Minister Mistress Miter Mobcap Moble Mock Monkish Monodon Morion Morse Mouth Murky Murrion Muscle Musk Muskmelon Myrtle Nail Neck Never Nod Nodding Noddle Node Noll Nose Note Noul Nucleus Nun Nuzzle Nylgau Occasion Occipital Occiput Open Opium Ostrich Over Paddle-staff Paint Palet Pan Pass-parole Pate Patriarch Pay Pebblestone Pectination Pendant Pendent Perk Phaeton Pheon Pico Pigheaded Pigtail Pike Pile Pileate Pillory Pillow Pin Pinner Pitch Pitched Pitching Plane-tree Play Plica Plume Plunge Plunging Pochard Point Pole-ax Poll Poll-evil Polyneme Polypus Pome Pop Pope Popinjay Porcupine Porpess Porringer Pose Pot Potence Precipice Precipitable Precipitance Precipitate Precipitated Precipitately Precipitating Precipitation Precipitous Preciptancy Presumption Princedom Principal Proa Profile Promontory Prone Proscribe Proscription Prosecute Puzzle-headed Quarrel Quarry Quarter Quoiffure Rail Rake Ranging Rase Reckon Reclaim Recline Recoil Rector Redpole Reed Reef-tackle Refuse Renverse Report Respective Rest Return Revenue Rickets Rivet Roman Roster Rostrum Rother-nails Round Roundhead Roundheaded Roundhouse Royal Rudd Sable Sacrament Saddle-backed Sagacious Sagittate Salamander Sallet Salmon Saloon Sanded Satyr Scald Scaldhead Scall Scalp Scalped Scalper Sconce Scotomy Scour Scratch Scupper-nail Sea Sea-devil Seal Send Serpent Set Sever Shade Shake Shallow-brained Shape Shave Sheeps-head Sheldrake Shelter Shot Shroud Shrug Shuffle Sidewise Sillyhow Silver Sinciput Sing Sink Skull Skull-cap Skyish Slight Slouch Snaky Somersault Somerset Source Specht Sperm Spike Spot Sprig Spring Spy Squat Squill Starboard Station Stay Steel Stop Strength Strut Strutting Stud Stuff Stun Summerset Sunder Superlunar Surcharge Sweep Swim Syllabus Sympathy Table Tail Take Tarabe Teach Teem Temerarious Temple Temporal Term Testudo Tete Tetter That Thereafter Thorp Throb Tiar Tickle Tiffany Tilt Timber-head Time Tip Tire Tirewoman Tithingman Tonsure Top Top-heavy Topical Topple Topsy-turvy Toquet Torso Tortoise Toss Tossing Tour Tower Trail Train Traverse Treasonable Trestle Trim Trochilus Trunk Tub Tuft Tung Turban Turbulent Turn Twy-blade Tympanize Uncover Under Underprop Unhead Unheaded Unheading Unity Unpillowed Up Upon Urge Valance Ventanna Vertex Vertical Verticalness Vertigo Vial Vice-admiral Vignet Viscera Visor Vulture Waft Wag Ware Warm Warmth Way Weasel-coot Well-head Weregild Widgeon Wig Wound Wring Wronghead Wrongheaded Wryneck Yellow-hammer Zygomatic
Aaronic Abada Abagun Aborea Abreast Abstract Abutment Abuttal Accubation Accusation Acephalous Acephalus Acetabulum Ache Achor Acipenser Acorn Acroter Acupuncture Admiral Adoration Ady Affair Afflux Afore Ahead Aicurus Ajuru-curau Ake Alee Alembic Algol Aloft Aludel Ammodyte Amphisben Anaca Analysis Anchor Angel Angel-fish Angelites Angor Anhima Anoint Antennae Antler Aorta Apogon Apostolics Arc Argument Arrow-head Arthrodia Artichoke Ashwednesday Aspic Ass-head Auriga Awning Ax Babyroussa Backstays Bald Baldness Bare Bareheaded Barrel Barshot Bass Bastards Battering-ram Bay Beal Beam Bearing-cloth Beck Beduck Beech Beet-rave Beetle-head Beetle-headed Beguin Behead Beheaded Beheading Belly Benedictines Benjamin Bicipital Biggel Biggin Bird Bison Bless Blockhead Blood Blue-cap Bluff Blunderhead Bobbin Body Bolster Bolt-head Bolt-rope Bonnet Borough Borough-holder Borsholder Bossy Bow Box Boxed Brace Brad Brain Brank Bridle Bridling Bristle Broach Broom-corn Brow Browbound Browless Brownist Budge-barrel Buffel Buffle-head Buffle-headed Bufonite Build Bulbed Bulk-head Bull Bull-head Bump Burbot Burr Bust Butt Cabbage Caboshed Cachalot Calash Calendar Camel Camelopard Camphor-tree Canopy Cap Cape Capital Capitate Capitation Capite Capitulate Capitulation Captain Capuchin Capuchins Carotid Carry Cartilaginous Caruncle Cask Cassowary Cast Cathedral Caul Cephalalgic Cephalalgy Cephalic Cerebel Cetaceous Change Chapless Chase Cheek Cherub Chevage Chief Chieftain Chieftainry Chimera Chop Chub Chuckle-head Circumferentor Citron-tree Clerk Club-headed Coal-mouse Cob Cock Cockroach Coif Coiffure Cold-finch Comb Combing Commendam Commissary Commode Commonplace Compendium Complain Complete Comprehensive Conceit Condyloid Consolidate Cop Cope Copped Copple-stones Corbel Cordate Cordated Cormorant Cornel Cornel-tree Cornelian-tree Corner Cornet Coronal Coronary Coronet Corporal Corporation Corymb Coryphene Costard Couchant Counsel Coverchief Coxcomb Crane-fly Crest Cringle Crown Crutch Cruyshage Cucurbit Cut-water Cyclopedia Cycopede Dandruff Dash Deacon Dean Death Decapitate Declination Decline Decollation Defluxion Delineate Depth Diadem Digest Digesting Digraph Disease Dishevel Disorder Dissever Distempered Dive Diver Dizziness Dizzy Docket Dodo Dog Dolphin Doree Double-headed Downwards Dozy Dragonet Dragons-head Dropsy Duck Eagle-stone Ear Echinus Eel Effigy Egret Eld Elevation Elops Ember-goose Employ Employment Emptiness Empty End Ensign Enterology Enumeration Equine Eryngo Estate Evade Exert Expose Extremity Face Fall Family Fatherlasher Fearfully Felucca Ferule Fether Fid Fieldfare Fig Filial Fillet Firmament Fishing-frog Flare Flourish Flower Fontange For Forehead Foreland Forelock Forerunner Forestay Foretop Forewoman Form Fount Fray From Frosted Frosty Full Full-drive Fungiform G Galley Gargil Garland General Giddily Giddiness Giddy Gill Gilthead Glome Glory Go Godwit Granit Gray-headed Grudge Gryphite Guinea-hen Gulaund Gurnard Guy Haggess Hair Hairlace Hairpowder Halberd Halibut Halter Hammer Hand Hang Hard Hardhead Harpoon Harvest-lord Hastate Hat Haul Hawk Head Head-piece Head-sail Head-sea Headach Headband Headdress Headed Header Headfast Headfirst Headgear Headiness Heading Headless Headlong Headmost Headshake Headsman Headstall Headstone Headstrong Headtire Headway Heady Heave Helmed Hemicrany Her High Hinder Hit Hoariness Hoary Hobnail Hold Honor Hood Hoopoe Horn Hornowl Horseshoe-head Hotmouthed Hotspur Hotspurred Hounds Humming-bird Hurl Huso Hyads Hydatid Hydra Hydrocephalus Idiopathic Idleheaded Imagine Immolate Impend Imperial Imposition Impress Improvable Inclination Incline Innoxious Instruct Intaglio Inventive Inviolability Jararaca Joint Jole Kan Kerchief Knock Knotty Lamprey Languish Languishment Larboard Lautu Lay Lie Lift Light-brain Lightheaded Lightheadedness Ling Lintel Lion Little Lob Loftily Lofty Loggerhead Logical Longitudinal Luff Lute Madness Maggoty-headed Make Many-headed Master Mazard Megrim Mere Metonymy Milliner Millinery Minister Mistress Miter Mobcap Moble Mock Monkish Monodon Morion Morse Mouth Murky Murrion Muscle Musk Muskmelon Myrtle Nail Neck Never Nod Nodding Noddle Node Noll Nose Note Noul Nucleus Nun Nuzzle Nylgau Occasion Occipital Occiput Open Opium Ostrich Over Paddle-staff Paint Palet Pan Pass-parole Pate Patriarch Pay Pebblestone Pectination Pendant Pendent Perk Phaeton Pheon Pico Pigheaded Pigtail Pike Pile Pileate Pillory Pillow Pin Pinner Pitch Pitched Pitching Plane-tree Play Plica Plume Plunge Plunging Pochard Point Pole-ax Poll Poll-evil Polyneme Polypus Pome Pop Pope Popinjay Porcupine Porpess Porringer Pose Pot Potence Precipice Precipitable Precipitance Precipitate Precipitated Precipitately Precipitating Precipitation Precipitous Preciptancy Presumption Princedom Principal Proa Profile Promontory Prone Proscribe Proscription Prosecute Puzzle-headed Quarrel Quarry Quarter Quoiffure Rail Rake Ranging Rase Reckon Reclaim Recline Recoil Rector Redpole Reed Reef-tackle Refuse Renverse Report Respective Rest Return Revenue Rickets Rivet Roman Roster Rostrum Rother-nails Round Roundhead Roundheaded Roundhouse Royal Rudd Sable Sacrament Saddle-backed Sagacious Sagittate Salamander Sallet Salmon Saloon Sanded Satyr Scald Scaldhead Scall Scalp Scalped Scalper Sconce Scotomy Scour Scratch Scupper-nail Sea Sea-devil Seal Send Serpent Set Sever Shade Shake Shallow-brained Shape Shave Sheeps-head Sheldrake Shelter Shot Shroud Shrug Shuffle Sidewise Sillyhow Silver Sinciput Sing Sink Skull Skull-cap Skyish Slight Slouch Snaky Somersault Somerset Source Specht Sperm Spike Spot Sprig Spring Spy Squat Squill Starboard Station Stay Steel Stop Strength Strut Strutting Stud Stuff Stun Summerset Sunder Superlunar Surcharge Sweep Swim Syllabus Sympathy Table Tail Take Tarabe Teach Teem Temerarious Temple Temporal Term Testudo Tete Tetter That Thereafter Thorp Throb Tiar Tickle Tiffany Tilt Timber-head Time Tip Tire Tirewoman Tithingman Tonsure Top Top-heavy Topical Topple Topsy-turvy Toquet Torso Tortoise Toss Tossing Tour Tower Trail Train Traverse Treasonable Trestle Trim Trochilus Trunk Tub Tuft Tung Turban Turbulent Turn Twy-blade Tympanize Uncover Under Underprop Unhead Unheaded Unheading Unity Unpillowed Up Upon Urge Valance Ventanna Vertex Vertical Verticalness Vertigo Vial Vice-admiral Vignet Viscera Visor Vulture Waft Wag Ware Warm Warmth Way Weasel-coot Well-head Weregild Widgeon Wig Wound Wring Wronghead Wrongheaded Wryneck Yellow-hammer Zygomatic
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