Definition of head

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Head (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..

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Manhead :: Manhead (n.) Manhood.
Bump :: Bump (v. t.) To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall..
Growthead :: Growthead (n.) A lazy person; a blockhead.
Hair :: Hair (n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body..
Trisplanchnic :: Trisplanchnic (a.) Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; -- applied to the sympathetic nervous system..
Student :: Studding sail () A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail..
Dousing-chock :: Dousing-chock (n.) One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck..
Parietal :: Parietal (n.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes..
Sheep''s-foot :: Sheep's-foot (n.) A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer..
Head :: Head (v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail..
Envelop :: Envelop (n.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.
Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.
Borsholder :: Borsholder (a.) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable..
Swimmingly :: Swimming (n.) Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head..
Lochaber Axe :: Lochaber axe () A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders..
Block :: Block (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
Rattle-brained :: Rattle-brained (a.) Giddy; rattle-headed.
Sparoid :: Sparoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sparidae, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream..
Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head..
Spermist :: Spermist (n.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body..
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