Definition of head

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Head (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook..

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Buffel Duck :: Buffel duck () A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead..
High-top :: High-top (n.) A ship's masthead.
Redhead :: Redhead (n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
Pollage :: Pollage (n.) A head or poll tax; hence, extortion..
Forewoman :: Forewoman (n.) A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.
Centicipitous :: Centicipitous (a.) Hundred-headed.
Epicranium :: Epicranium (n.) The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc..
Lernean :: Lernean (n.) One of a family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix..
In :: In (adv.) Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house)..
Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit..
Coccosteus :: Coccosteus (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles..
Corrugate :: Corrugate (v. t.) To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead..
Cephalotrocha :: Cephalotrocha (n.) A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.
Headline :: Headline (n.) The line at the head or top of a page.
Ichthyomancy :: Ichthyomancy (n.) Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.
Haurient :: Haurient (a.) In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air..
Pinner :: Pinner (n.) A headdress like a cap, with long lappets..
Bullpout :: Bullpout (n.) See Bullhead, 1 (b)..
Cope :: Cope (n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door..
Sagamore :: Sagamore (n.) The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank..
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