The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the
brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the
higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
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.
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.
The most prominent or important member of
any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a
college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
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.
Each one among many; an individual; --
often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of
cattle.
The seat of the intellect; the brain; the
understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is,
a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to
him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
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.
A headland; a promontory; as, Gay
Head.
A separate part, or topic, of a
discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the
heads of a sermon.
Culminating point or crisis; hence,
strength; force; height.
Power; armed force.
A headdress; a covering of the head; as,
a laced head; a head of hair.
An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the
other small cereals.
A dense
cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a
capitulum.
The antlers of a deer.
A rounded mass of foam which rises on a
pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
Tiles laid at the eaves of a
house.
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