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| Head |
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. |
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| Head |
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. |
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| Head |
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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| 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. |
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| Head |
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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| Addle-head |
Alt. of Addle-pate |
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| Shock-head |
Shock-headed. |
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| Snake's-head |
The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. |
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| Tough-head |
The ruddy duck. |
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| Tow-head |
An urchin who has soft, whitish hair. |
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| Tow-head |
The hooded merganser. |
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| Woolly-head |
A negro. |
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| Cittern-head |
Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. |
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| Cubbridge-head |
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. |
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| Death's-head |
A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. |
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| Dragon's head |
Alt. of Dragon's tail |
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| Feather-head |
A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
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| Giddy-head |
A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. |
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| -head |
A variant of -hood. |
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| Head-cheese |
A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass. |
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| Head gear |
Alt. of Headgear |
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| Head-hunter |
A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. |
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| Head-lugged |
Lugged or dragged by the head. |
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| Hot-head |
A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head. |
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