Definition of head

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Head (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..

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Headmould Shot :: Headmould shot () An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures..
Goodlyhead :: Goodlyhead (n.) Alt. of Goodlyhoo.
Testiere :: Testiere (n.) A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.
Neck :: Neck (n.) The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk..
Precipitantly :: Precipitantly (adv.) With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.
Craniotomy :: Craniotomy (n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery..
Pheon :: Pheon (n.) A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge..
Womanhead :: Womanhead (n.) Alt. of Womanhed.
Knapweed :: Knapweed (n.) The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.
Melanure :: Melanure (n.) A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).
Snout :: Snout (n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
Tumpline :: Tumpline (n.) A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.
Burr :: Burr (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
Coronel :: Coronel (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points..
Horripilation :: Horripilation (n.) A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc..
Gardant :: Gardant (a.) Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast..
Menhaden :: Menhaden (n.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc..
Hogfish :: Hogfish (n.) A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa)..
Front :: Front (n.) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face..
Forehead :: Forehead (n.) The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
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