Definition of head

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Head (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..

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Maidenhead :: Maidenhead (n.) The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
Procephalic :: Procephalic (a.) Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head..
Facies :: Facies (n.) The anterior part of the head; the face.
Shake :: Shake (n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
Headmost :: Headmost (a.) Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet..
Capitulate :: Capitulate (n.) To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree..
Humblehead :: Humblehead (n.) Humble condition or estate; humility.
Chucklehead :: Chucklehead (n.) A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.
Checkrein :: Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
Yakin :: Yakin (n.) A large Asiatic antelope (Budorcas taxicolor) native of the higher parts of the Himalayas and other lofty mountains. Its head and neck resemble those of the ox, and its tail is like that of the goat. Called also budorcas..
Madbrain :: Madbrain (a.) Hot-headed; rash.
Headship :: Headship (n.) Authority or dignity; chief place.
Drunkenhead :: Drunkenhead (n.) Drunkenness.
Rosella :: Rosella (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow..
Wagon-roofed :: Wagon-roofed (a.) Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed..
Temple :: Temple (n.) One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place..
Hamshackle :: Hamshackle (v. t.) To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb..
Pontiff :: Pontiff (n.) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus..
Forestay :: Forestay (n.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship..
Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.
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