Definition of head

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Head (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals..

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Swimmingly :: Swimming (n.) Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head..
Abuttal :: Abuttal (n.) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland..
Behead :: Behead (v. t.) To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
Thickhead :: Thickhead (n.) A thick-headed or stupid person.
Baldpated :: Baldpated (a.) Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded.
Chucklehead :: Chucklehead (n.) A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.
Clypeus :: Clypeus (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.
Burr :: Burr (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer..
Redhead :: Redhead (n.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
Brief :: Brief (a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument..
Temple :: Temple (n.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear..
Laurel :: Laurel (n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel..
Trimmer :: Trimmer (n.) A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header..
Hood :: Hood (n.) The top or head of a carriage.
Fanion :: Fanion (n.) A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
Coamings :: Coamings (n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges..
Busby :: Busby (n.) A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder..
Head :: Head (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..
Trinitarianism :: Trinitarianism (n.) The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.
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