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  HEAD-:MONEY:, n.  A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
  
      In ancient times there lived a king
      Whose tax-collectors could not wring
      From all his subjects gold enough
      To make the royal way less rough.
      For pleasure's highway, like the dames
      Whose premises adjoin it, claims
      Perpetual repairing.  So
      The tax-collectors in a row
      Appeared before the throne to pray
      Their master to devise some way
      To swell the revenue.  "So great,"
      Said they, "are the demands of state
      A tithe of all that we collect
      Will scarcely meet them.  Pray reflect:
      How, if one-tenth we must resign,
      Can we exist on t'other nine?"
      The monarch asked them in reply:
      "Has it occurred to you to try
      The advantage of economy?"
      "It has," the spokesman said:  "we sold
      All of our gray garrotes of gold;
      With plated-ware we now compress
      The necks of those whom we assess.
      Plain iron forceps we employ
      To mitigate the miser's joy
      Who hoards, with greed that never tires,
      That which your Majesty requires."
      Deep lines of thought were seen to plow
      Their way across the royal brow.
      "Your state is desperate, no question;
      Pray favor me with a suggestion."
      "O King of Men," the spokesman said,
      "If you'll impose upon each head
      A tax, the augmented revenue
      We'll cheerfully divide with you."
      As flashes of the sun illume
      The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom,
      The king smiled grimly.  "I decree
      That it be so -- and, not to be
      In generosity outdone,
      Declare you, each and every one,
      Exempted from the operation
      Of this new law of capitation.
      But lest the people censure me
      Because they're bound and you are free,
      'Twere well some clever scheme were laid
      By you this poll-tax to evade.
      I'll leave you now while you confer
      With my most trusted minister."
      The monarch from the throne-room walked
      And straightway in among them stalked
      A silent man, with brow concealed,
      Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed!
                                                                    G.J.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  -head \-head\ (-h[e^]d), suffix.
     A variant of -hood.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Head \Head\ (h[e^]d), n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he['a]fod;
     akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h["o]fu[eth],
     Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubi[thorn]. The word does not
     correspond regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. Chief,
     Cadet, Capital), and its origin is unknown.]
     1. 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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     2. 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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     3. 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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     4. 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. ``Their princes
        and heads.'' --Robynson (More's Utopia).
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              The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.
                                                    --Tillotson.
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              Your head I him appoint.              --Milton.
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     5. 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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              An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke
              of Marlborough at the head of them.   --Addison.
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     6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a
        plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
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              It there be six millions of people, there are about
              four acres for every head.            --Graunt.
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     7. 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.
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              Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay.
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     8. 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.
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     9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak.
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     10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be
         expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
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     11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force;
         height.
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               Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into
               corruption.                          --Shak.
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               The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is
               at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly
               make an end of me or of itself.      --Addison.
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     12. Power; armed force.
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               My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
                                                    --Shak.
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     13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a
         head of hair. --Swift.
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     14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small
         cereals.
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     15. (Bot.)
         (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies,
             thistles; a capitulum.
         (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a
             lettuce plant.
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     16. The antlers of a deer.
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     17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or
         other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer.
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     18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight.
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     Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
           combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf.
           Head, a.
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     A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth
        year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak.
  
     By the head. (Naut.) See under By.
  
     Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator,
        Feed, etc.
  
     From head to foot, through the whole length of a man;
        completely; throughout. ``Arm me, audacity, from head to
        foot.'' --Shak.
  
     Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely;
        as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.]
        
  
     Head fast. (Naut.) See 5th Fast.
  
     Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs
        of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates;
        the pronephros.
  
     Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton.
  
     Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.]
  
     Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls
        against her course.
  
     Head and shoulders.
         (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and
             shoulders. ``They bring in every figure of speech,
             head and shoulders.'' --Felton.
         (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a
             great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head
             and shoulders above them.
  
     Heads or tails or Head or tail, this side or that side;
        this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to
        decide a choice, question, or stake, head being the side
        of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in
        case there is no head or face on either side, that side
        which has the date on it), and tail the other side.
  
     Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither
        this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a
        phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused;
        as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter.
        [Colloq.]
  
     Head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the
        vessel's course.
  
     off the top of my head, from quick recollection, or as an
        approximation; without research or calculation; -- a
        phrase used when giving quick and approximate answers to
        questions, to indicate that a response is not necessarily
        accurate.
  
     Out of one's own head, according to one's own idea; without
        advice or co["o]peration of another.
  
     Over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.
  
     to go over the head of (a person), to appeal to a person
        superior to (a person) in line of command.
  
     To be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane.
  
     To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw.
  
     To give (one) the head, or To give head, to let go, or to
        give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license.
        ``He gave his able horse the head.'' --Shak. ``He has so
        long given his unruly passions their head.'' --South.
  
     To his head, before his face. ``An uncivil answer from a
        son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor,
        is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his
        house or revile him to his head.'' --Jer. Taylor.
  
     To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire.
  
     To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind.
  
     To make head, or To make head against, to resist with
        success; to advance.
  
     To show one's head, to appear. --Shak.
  
     To turn head, to turn the face or front. ``The ravishers
        turn head, the fight renews.'' --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Head \Head\, v. i.
     1. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
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              A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge.
                                                    --Adair.
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     2. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how
        does the ship head?
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     3. To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Head \Head\ (h[e^]d), 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Head \Head\ (h[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Headed; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Heading.]
     1. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to
        lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army,
        an expedition, or a riot. --Dryden.
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     2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to
        head a nail. --Spenser.
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     3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
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     5. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder
        or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to
        head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a
        ship.
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     6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
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     To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer
        heads off a thief who is escaping. ``We'll head them off
        at the pass.''
  
     To head up,
        (a) to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.
        (b) To serve as the leader of; as, to head up a team of
            investigators.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Feed \Feed\, n.
     1. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder;
        pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed
        for sheep.
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     2. A grazing or pasture ground. --Shak.
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     3. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a
        meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
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     4. A meal, or the act of eating. [R.]
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              For such pleasure till that hour
              At feed or fountain never had I found. --Milton.
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     5. The water supplied to steam boilers.
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     6. (Mach.)
        (a) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to
            be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing
            machine; or of producing progressive operation upon
            any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning
            lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the
            work.
        (b) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a
            steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of
            stones.
        (c) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is
            produced; a feed motion.
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     Feed bag, a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule.
        
  
     Feed cloth, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other
        fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc.
  
     Feed door, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal.
  
     Feed head.
        (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam
            boiler.
        (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which
            serves to render the casting more compact by its
            pressure; -- also called a riser, deadhead, or
            simply feed or head --Knight.
  
     Feed heater.
        (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for
            the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam.
        (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock.
            
  
     Feed motion, or Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism
        that gives motion to the part that directly produces the
        feed in a machine.
  
     Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam
        engine, etc., with water.
  
     Feed pump, a force pump for supplying water to a steam
        boiler, etc.
  
     Feed regulator, a device for graduating the operation of a
        feeder. --Knight.
  
     Feed screw, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a
        regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work.
  
     Feed water, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc.
  
     Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See Feeder, n., 8.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Feed \Feed\, n.
     1. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder;
        pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed
        for sheep.
  
     2. A grazing or pasture ground. --Shak.
  
     3. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a
        meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
  
     4. A meal, or the act of eating. [R.]
  
              For such pleasure till that hour At feed or fountain
              never had I found.                    --Milton.
  
     5. The water supplied to steam boilers.
  
     6. (Mach.)
        (a) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to
            be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing
            machine; or of producing progressive operation upon
            any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning
            lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the
            work.
        (b) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a
            steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of
            stones.
        (c) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is
            produced; a feed motion.
  
     Feed bag, a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule.
        
  
     Feed cloth, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other
        fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc.
  
     Feed door, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal.
  
     Feed head.
        (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam
            boiler.
        (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which
            serves to render the casting more compact by its
            pressure; -- also called a riser, deadhead, or
            simply feed or head --Knight.
  
     Feed heater.
        (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for
            the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam.
        (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock.
            
  
     Feed motion, or Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism
        that gives motion to the part that directly produces the
        feed in a machine.
  
     Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam
        engine, etc., with water.
  
     Feed pump, a force pump for supplying water to a steam
        boiler, etc.
  
     Feed regulator, a device for graduating the operation of a
        feeder. --Knight.
  
     Feed screw, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a
        regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work.
  
     Feed water, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc.
  
     Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See Feeder, n., 8.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Head \Head\, n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he['a]fod; akin to
     D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h["o]fu?, Sw. hufvud,
     Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not corresponds
     regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. Chief, Cadet,
     Capital), and its origin is unknown.]
     1. 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.
  
     2. 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.
  
     3. 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.
  
     4. 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. ``Their princes
        and heads.'' --Robynson (More's Utopia).
  
              The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.
                                                    --Tillotson.
  
              Your head I him appoint.              --Milton.
  
     5. 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.
  
              An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke
              Marlborough at the head of them.      --Addison.
  
     6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a
        plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
  
              It there be six millions of people, there are about
              four acres for every head.            --Graunt.
  
     7. 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.
  
              Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay.
  
     8. 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.
  
     9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak.
  
     10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be
         expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
  
     11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force;
         height.
  
               Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into
               corruption.                          --Shak.
  
               The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is
               at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly
               make an end of me or of itself.      --Addison.
  
     12. Power; armed force.
  
               My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a
         head of hair. --Swift.
  
     14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small
         cereals.
  
     15. (Bot.)
         (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies,
             thistles; a capitulum.
         (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a
             lettuce plant.
  
     16. The antlers of a deer.
  
     17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or
         other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer.
  
     18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight.
  
     Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
           combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf.
           Head, a.
  
     A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth
        year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak.
  
     By the head. (Naut.) See under By.
  
     Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator,
        Feed, etc.
  
     From head to foot, through the whole length of a man;
        completely; throughout. ``Arm me, audacity, from head to
        foot.'' --Shak.
  
     Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely;
        as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.]
        
  
     Head fast. (Naut.) See 5th Fast.
  
     Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs
        of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates;
        the pronephros.
  
     Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton.
  
     Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.]
  
     Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls
        against her course.
  
     Head and shoulders.
         (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and
             shoulders. ``They bring in every figure of speech,
             head and shoulders.'' --Felton.
         (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a
             great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head
             and shoulders above them.
  
     Head or tail, this side or that side; this thing or that;
        -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice,
        guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin
        bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there
        is no head or face on either side, that side which has the
        date on it), and tail the other side.
  
     Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither
        this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a
        phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused;
        as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter.
        [Colloq.]
  
     Head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the
        vessel's course.
  
     Out one's own head, according to one's own idea; without
        advice or co["o]peration of another.
  
     Over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  -head \-head\, suffix.
     A variant of -hood.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Head \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Head \Head\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Headed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Heading.]
     1. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to
        lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army,
        an expedition, or a riot. --Dryden.
  
     2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to
        head a nail. --Spenser.
  
     3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
  
     5. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder
        or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to
        head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a
        ship.
  
     6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
  
     To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer
        heads off a thief who is escaping.
  
     To head up, to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a
        head to.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Head \Head\, v. i.
     1. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
  
              A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge.
                                                    --Adair.
  
     2. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how
        does the ship head?
  
     3. To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  head
       n 1: the upper part of the human body or the front part of the
            body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck
            his head out the window" [syn: caput]
       2: a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle"
       3: that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings;
          the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I
          couldn't get his words out of my head" [syn: mind, brain,
           psyche, nous]
       4: a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation"
          [syn: chief, top dog]
       5: the front of a military formation or procession; "the head
          of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of
          the attack" [ant: rear]
       6: the pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam"
       7: the top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of
          the page"; "the head of the list" [ant: foot]
       8: the source of water from which a stream arises; "they
          tracked him back toward the head of the stream" [syn: fountainhead,
           headspring]
       9: (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays
          the same grammatical role as the whole constituent [syn: head
          word]
       10: the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
       11: the length or height based on the size of a human or animal
           head; "he is two heads taller than his little sister";
           "his horse won by a head"
       12: a dense clusters of flowers or foliage; "a head of
           cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" [syn: capitulum]
       13: the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she
           sent unruly pupils to see the principal" [syn: principal,
            school principal, head teacher]
       14: an individual person; "tickets are $5 per head"
       15: a user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of
           secret heads"
       16: a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet"
       17: the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour
           an effervescent liquid into a container; "the beer had a
           large head of foam"
       18: the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the
           forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" [syn: forefront]
       19: a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a
           head yesterday" [syn: pass, straits]
       20: forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the
           gale" [syn: headway]
       21: a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point
           of the arrow was due north" [syn: point]
       22: the subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits
           serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman
           poets" [syn: question]
       23: a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it
           is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with
           the text" [syn: heading, header]
       24: the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in
           another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus"
       25: that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone
           that it moves
       26: (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal
           pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
           [syn: read/write head]
       27: (usually plural) an obverse side of a coin that bears the
           representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!"
           [ant: tail]
       28: the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer"
       29: (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
       30: a projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a
           pinhead is the head of a pin"
       31: a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum [syn: drumhead]
       32: oral-genital stimulation; "they say he gives good head"
           [syn: oral sex]
       v 1: to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were
            headed for the mountains"
       2: be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" [syn: lead]
       3: travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession
          was headed by John" [syn: lead]
       4: be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This
          student heads the class" [syn: head up]
       5: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
          [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct,
           point, guide, channelize, channelise]
       6: take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in
          the Himalayas"
       7: be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the
          name of the president"
       8: form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed
          early this year"
       9: remove the head of; "head the fish"

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  head
     Αγγλικά n.
     1 (ετ ανατ en) το κεφάλι
     2 το πάνω, το κεφάλι
     3 το κεφάλι, μέτρο σύγκρισης ύψους
     4 (''ενικός'') το κεφάλι, αριθμός ζώο σε κοπάδι
     5 το κεφάλι, ο καθένας, αριθμός ανθρώπων σε συνεστίαση
     6 το κεφάλι, ο εγκέφαλος, η πνευματικός κατάσταση, η σκέψη
     7 η κεφαλή
     8 (ετ υλυπ en) η κεφαλή
     9 το κεφάλι, κάτι στρογγυλός
     Αγγλικά vb.
     κατευθύνω, κατευθύνομαι

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  -head
     suf.
     (senseid en abstract noun) (non-gloss definition: Used to create
  nouns indicating a state); -hood.
     suf.
     1 (lb en sometimes derogatory) (ngd: Used to form words for people
  who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject,
  activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in
  some way.)
     2 (ngd: Used to form words to describe people who are dedicated fans
  of something, especially music.)
     3 (lb en derogatory) (ngd: Used with other words to form generic
  insults or epithets to indicate stupidity.)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  head
     Estonian a.
     (inflection of et hea  par s ; nom p)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Head
     n.
     (surname en from=Middle English), from residence near a hilltop or
  the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  -head
     suf.
     (senseid en abstract noun) (non-gloss definition: Used to create
  nouns indicating a state); -hood.
     suf.
     1 (lb en sometimes derogatory) (ngd: Used to form words for people
  who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject,
  activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in
  some way.)
     2 (ngd: Used to form words to describe people who are dedicated fans
  of something, especially music.)
     3 (lb en derogatory) (ngd: Used with other words to form generic
  insults or epithets to indicate stupidity.)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  head
     a.
     Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
     n.
     (lb en countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which
  contains the brain, mouth(,) and main sense organs.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en be in command) (lb en transitive) To be in command of.
  (See also (m en head up).)
     2 (lb en transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to
  commence.
     3 (lb en transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, ''to head
  the ball''
     4 (lb en intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
     5 (lb en fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
     6 (lb en intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course,
  as a river.
     a.
     1 Foremost in rank or importance.
     2 Placed at the top or the front.
     3 Coming from in front.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  Head
     n.
     (surname en from=Middle English), from residence near a hilltop or
  the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  -head
     suf.
     (senseid en abstract noun) (non-gloss definition: Used to create
  nouns indicating a state); -hood.
     suf.
     1 (lb en sometimes derogatory) (ngd: Used to form words for people
  who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject,
  activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in
  some way.)
     2 (ngd: Used to form words to describe people who are dedicated fans
  of something, especially music.)
     3 (lb en derogatory) (ngd: Used with other words to form generic
  insults or epithets to indicate stupidity.)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  head
     Estonian a.
     (inflection of et hea  par s ; nom p)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  Head
     n.
     (surname en from=Middle English), from residence near a hilltop or
  the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  -head
     suf.
     (senseid en abstract noun) (non-gloss definition: Used to create
  nouns indicating a state); -hood.
     suf.
     1 (lb en sometimes derogatory) (ngd: Used to form words for people
  who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject,
  activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in
  some way.)
     2 (ngd: Used to form words to describe people who are dedicated fans
  of something, especially music.)
     3 (lb en derogatory) (ngd: Used with other words to form generic
  insults or epithets to indicate stupidity.)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  head
     Estonian a.
     (inflection of et hea  par s ; nom p)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  Head
     n.
     (surname en from=Middle English), from residence near a hilltop or
  the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  head
     Viro a.
     (taivm-mon-nom et hea luok=a)
     Viro n.
     (taivm-mon-nom et hea luok=s)

From Albanian Wiktionary [incomplete] (2016-11-13) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sq-ALL-2016-11-13 ]


  head
     Anglisht n.
     kokë

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  head
     Engelska a.
     1 huvud-
     2 som är främst i rang eller betydelse
     3 som är placerad överst eller främst
     4 mot-
     Engelska n.
     1 (tagg anatomi språk=en) huvud
     2 framdel, spets; bog
     3 huvudavdelning
     4 chef
     5 lager av skum vid toppen av glaset på kolsyrad dryck; skum
     Engelska vb.
     1 anföra, leda
     2 vara på väg; styra kosan

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  head /hˈɛd/
  1. lei
  2. kop
  3. beeldenaar

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  head /hˈɛd/
  in bedwang hou

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Head /hˈɛd/
  الرئيس

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  head //ˈhɛd// 
  1. насрещен
  coming from in front
  2. преден, челен
  foremost in rank or importance
  3. горен, преден
  placed at the top or the front

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  head //ˈhɛd// 
  1. глава́ 2.
  clump of seeds, leaves or flowers
   3.
  individual person
  2. дире́ктор, дире́кторка
  headmaster, headmistress
  3. глава́, ръководи́тел, шеф
  leader, chief, mastermind
  4. коро́на
  leafy top part of a tree
  5. глава́, глава
  part of the body
  6. го́рница, глава
  topmost or leading part

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  head //ˈhɛd// 
  1. ръководя
  to be in command of
  2. отправям се
  to move in a specified direction
  3. извирам
  to originate, as a river