Definition:
- (n.) 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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.) A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
- (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
- (n.) Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
- (n.) Power; armed force.
- (n.) A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
- (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
- (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
- (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
- (n.) The antlers of a deer.
- (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
- (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
- (v. t.) 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.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
- (v. t.) To behead; to decapitate.
- (v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
- (v. t.) 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.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
- (v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
- (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
- (v. i.) To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
Compare head with other words:
head vs. sill
chairman vs. head
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attic vs. head
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gorgoneion vs. head
anserated vs. head
head vs. osteophone
head vs. underhead
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blowball vs. head
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cephalad vs. head
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capitatim vs. head
bicipital vs. head
head vs. wase
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acephalic vs. head
head vs. rattail
head vs. pome
bucranium vs. head
head vs. mesocephalic
extratemporal vs. head
head vs. headborough
head vs. pericranium
brachycephalic vs. head
guts vs. head
head vs. nose
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condyle vs. head
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head vs. leg
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forehead vs. head
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congestion vs. head
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cape vs. head
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hardhead vs. head
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gardant vs. head
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coronilla vs. head
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doornail vs. head
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head vs. hydrocephalous
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bareheaded vs. head
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cephalalgia vs. head
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decapitated vs. head
dolichocephalic vs. head
galea vs. head
capitular vs. head
cephalometer vs. head
aigrette vs. head
colewort vs. head
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cephalothorax vs. head
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aurocephalous vs. head
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carotid vs. head
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emboss vs. head
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cranium vs. head
hair vs. head
head vs. origin
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chieftain vs. head
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head vs. macrocephalous
head vs. intracranial
head vs. topknot
fontanelle vs. head
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bonk vs. head
coroner vs. head
brawn vs. head
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head vs. pinna
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head vs. pickaxe
head vs. hydra
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fizz vs. head
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head vs. spearhead
controller vs. head
comptroller vs. head
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decapitate vs. head
actuator vs. head
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counter vs. head
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cosmos vs. head
acrolith vs. head
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head vs. mistress
head vs. poll
dome vs. head
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head vs. pillow
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harpoon vs. head
flathead vs. head
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dandelion vs. head
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chef vs. head
biceps vs. head
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beck vs. head
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behead vs. head
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glaive vs. head
chamfron vs. head
hauberk vs. head
head vs. jugular
head vs. pate
bean vs. head
block vs. head
bludgeon vs. head
head vs. web
head vs. skull
bun vs. head
cap vs. head
head vs. treasurer
hat vs. head
content vs. head
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cabbage vs. head
head vs. manager
administrator vs. head
head vs. pash
cob vs. head
griffin vs. head
head vs. transport
head vs. horn
acephalist vs. head
head vs. laurel
cop vs. head
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crown vs. head
cook vs. head
head vs. undo
head vs. secretary