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  • English Word Head Definition To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
  • English Word Head Definition To behead; to decapitate.
  • English Word Head Definition To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
  • English Word Head Definition 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.
  • English Word Head Definition To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
  • English Word Head Definition To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
  • English Word Head Definition To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
  • English Word Head Definition To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
  • English Word Head gear Definition Alt. of Headgear
  • English Word Head-cheese Definition A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.
  • English Word Head-hunter Definition A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters.
  • English Word Head-lugged Definition Lugged or dragged by the head.
  • English Word Headache Definition Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
  • English Word Headachy Definition Afflicted with headache.
  • English Word Headband Definition A fillet; a band for the head.
  • English Word Headband Definition The band at each end of the back of a book.
  • English Word Headbeard Definition A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.
  • English Word Headborough Definition Alt. of Headborrow
  • English Word Headborrow Definition The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder.
  • English Word Headborrow Definition A petty constable.
  • English Word Headdress Definition A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.
  • English Word Headdress Definition A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
  • English Word Headed Definition of Head
  • English Word Headed Definition Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.
  • English Word Headed Definition Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
  • English Word Header Definition One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
  • English Word Header Definition One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.
  • English Word Header Definition A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
  • English Word Header Definition In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
  • English Word Header Definition A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.