1. HE , pronoun of the third person; nom. he; poss.his; obj. him. [Latin id, for hid; hic.]
2. A pronoun, a substitute for the third person, masculinegender, representing the man or male person named before.
3. Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Genesis 3:16 .
4. Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve. Deuteronomy 10:4 .
5. It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence. he is the man.
6. he is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely that answers the description. It is then synonymous with any man.
7. HE that walketh with wise men, shall be wise. Proverbs 13:3 .
8. he when a substitute for man in its general sense, expressing mankind, is of common gender, representing, like its antecedent, the whole human race.
9. My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh. Genesis 6:3 .
10. Man; a male.
11. I stand to answer thee, or any he the proudest of thy sort.
12. In this use of he in the ludicrous style, the word has no variation of case. In the foregoing sentence, he is in the objective case, or position, and the word is to be considered as a noun.
13. he is sometimes prefixed to the names of animals to designate the male kind, as a he-goat, a he-bear. In such cases, he is to be considered as an adjective, or the two words as forming a compound.
1. The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculinegender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculinegender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.
2. Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.
3. Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively.
2. The uppermost part of the human body, or the foremost part of the body of prone and creeping animals. This part of the human body contains the organs of hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling; it contains also the brain, which is supposed to be the seat of the intellectual powers, and of sensation. Hence the head is the chief or more important part, and is used for the whole person, in the phrase, let the evil fall on my head
3. An animal; an individual; as, the tax was raised by a certain rate per head And we use the singular number to express many. The herd contains twenty head of oxen.
5. A chief; a principal person; a leader; a commander; one who has the first rank or place, and to whom others are subordinate; as the head of an army; the head of a sect or party. Ephesians 5:23 .
6. The first place; the place of honor, or of command. The lord mayor sat at the head of the table. The general marched at the head of his troops.
7. Countenance; presence; in the phrases, to hide the head to show the head
8. Understanding; faculties of the mind; sometimes in a ludicrous sense; as, a man has a good head or a strong head These men laid their heads together to form the scheme. Never trouble your head about this affair. So we say, to beat the head; to break the head; that is, to study hard, to exercise the understanding or mental faculties.
10. The ravishers turn head the fight renews. [Unusual.]
11. Resistance; successful opposition; in the phrase, to make head against, that is, to advance, or resist with success.
12. Spontaneous will or resolution; in the phrases, of his own head on their own head But of is more usual than on.
13. State of a deer's horns by which his age is known. The buck is called, the fifth year, a buck of the first head
14. The top of a thing, especially when larger than the rest of the thing; as the head of a spear; the head of a cabbage; the head of a nail; the head of a mast.
15. The forepart of a thing, as the head of a ship, which includes the bows on both sides; also, the ornamental figure or image erected on or before the stem of a ship.
16. The blade or cutting part of an ax, distinct from the helve.
17. That which rises on the top; as the head or yeast of beer.
39. HEAD and ears, a phrase denoting the whole person, especially when referring to immersion. He plunged head and ears into the water. He was head and ears in debt, that is, completely overwhelmed.
40. HEAD and shoulders, by force; violently; as, to drag one head and shoulders.
41. They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.
42. HEAD or tail, or head nor tail, uncertain; not reducible to certainty.
43. HEAD , as an adj. or in composition, chief; principal; as a head workman.
44. By the head in seamen's language, denotes the state of a ship laden too deeply at the fore-end.
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.
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.
6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
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.
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.
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.
HEAD, Sir Edmund Walker, Bart., (1805-1868), a popular writer on art, was born in 1805 at Wiarton Place, near Maidstone in Kent. He was educated at Winchester school and Oriel College, Oxford, and taking his degree with first-class honours in classics, he became in 1827 fellow of Merton College, and in 1834 university examiner in classics. Two years later he married; and on his father’s deιth in 1838, he succeeded to the baronetcy as eighth baronet. His services as poor-law commissioner, to which post he was appointed in 1841 after three years as assistant-commissioner, procured for him in 1847 the office of lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, whence he passed in 1854 to the governor-generalship of Canada, which he retained till 1861. The following year, having returned to England, Head was nominated a civil-service commissioner. In 1857 he was sworn of the Privy Council, and in 1860 was decorated as K.C.B., while in the course of his career he received the degrees of D.C.L. at Oxford and LL.D, at Cambridge. He died in London, January 28, 1868.
Sir Edmund Head wrote the article “Painting,” in the Benny Cyclopaedia; A Handbook of the Spanish and French Schools of Painting, 1845; Shall and, Will, or two chapters on future Auxiliary Verbs, 1856; and Ballads and other Poems, original and translated, 1868. He also edited A Handbook of Painting of the German, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, and French Schools, 1854. His translation from the Icelandic of Viga Glum's Saga appeared in 1865....
HEAD, Sir Francis Bond, Bart. (1793-1875), soldier, traveller, and author, son of James Roper Head of the Hermitage, Kent, was born there January 1, 1793. He served with the Royal Engineers at the battle3 of Waterloo and Fleurus, and when he retired from the army he had risen to the rank of major. In 1825 he accepted the charge of an association formed to work the gold and silver mines of Rio de la Plata. In connexion with this enterprise he made several rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes, his Hough Notes of which, published in 1826, and written in a clear and spirited style, obtained for him the name of “Galloping Head.” In 1835 he was appointed governor of Upper Canada, where he manifested similar energy in dealing with the discontents from wLich the colony was at that time suffering. He resigned his office in 1837, and in recognition of his services he was in 1838 created a baronet. The narrative of his administration in Upper Canada was published by him in 1839. In 1867 he became a privy councillor. He died at his residence at Croydon, July 20, 1875. Some time previously a pension of £100 per annum was conferred upon him for his “services to literature.”
Sir Francis Head was the author of a considerable number of works, chiefly of travel, written in a clever, amusing, and graphic fashion, and displaying both acute observation and genial humour. Besides those already mentioned, his principal works, which have all gone through more than one edition, are Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau, 1833; Life of Bruce, 1844; The Emigrant, 1846; Stokers and Pokers, 1850; The Defenceless State of Great Britain, 1850; A Faggot of French Sticks, 1851; A Fortnight in Ireland, 1852; Descriptive Essays, 1856; The Horse and his Rider, 1860; The Royal Engineer, 1870.
HEAD, Sir George (1782—1855), brother of the preceding, was born in 1782. He was educated at the Charterhouse. In 1808 he received an appointment in the commissariat of the British army in the Peninsula, where be was a witness of many exciting scenes and important battles, of which he gave an interesting account in “Memoirs of an Assistant Commissary-General” attached to the second volume of his Home Tour, published in 1837. In 1814 he was sent to America to take charge of the commissariat in a naval establishment on the Canadian lakes, and he subsequently held appointments at Halifax andNova Scotia. Some of his Canadian experiences were narrated by him in Forest Scenery and Incidents in the Wilds of North America, published in 1829. In 1831 he received the honour of knighthood. He published in 1835 A Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of England, and in 1837 a sequel to it, entitled A Home Tour through various parts of the United Kingdom. Both works are amusing and instructive, but his Rome, a Tour of Many Days, published in 1849, is somewhat dull and tedious. He also contributed several articles to the Quarterly Review, and translated Historical Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca, 1850, and the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, 1851. He died in London, May 2, 1855.
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This word has several significations, beside its natural one, which denotes the head of a man. It is sometimes used in Scripture for the whole man: “Blessings are upon the head of the just,” Prov. x, 6; that is, upon their persons. God says of the wicked, “I will recompense their way upon their head,” Ezek. ix, 10. It signifies a chief or capital city: “The head of Syria is Damascus,” Isaiah vii, 8. It denotes a chief or principal members in society: “The Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail. The ancient and honourable he is the head,” Isaiah ix, 14, 15. “The seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent,” Gen. iii, 15; that is, Christ Jesus, the blessed seed of the woman, shall overthrow the power, policy, and works of the devil. The river in paradise was divided into four heads or branches. In times of grief, the mourners covered their heads: they cut and plucked off their hair. Amos, speaking of unhappy times, says, “I will bring baldness upon every head,” Amos viii, 10. In prosperity, they anointed their heads with sweet oils: “Let thy head lack no” perfumed “ointment,” Eccles. ix, 8. To shake the head at any one, expresses contempt: “The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee,” Isaiah xxxvii, 22.
Head is taken for one that hath rule and preëminence over others. Thus God is the head of Christ; as Mediator, from him he derives all his dignity and authority. Christ is the only spiritual head of the church, both in respect of eminence and influence; he communicates life, motion, and strength to every believer. Also the husband is the head of his wife, because by God’s ordinance he is to rule over her, Gen. iii, 16; also in ...regard to preëminence of sex, 1 Peter iii, 7, and excellency of knowledge, 1 Cor. xiv, 35. The Apostle mentions this subordination of persons in 1 Cor. xi, 3: “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.” “The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner,” Psalm cxviii, 22. It was the first in the angle, whether it were disposed at the top of that angle to adorn and crown it, or at the bottom to support it. This, in the New Testament, is applied to Christ, who is the strength and beauty of the church, to unite the several parts of it, namely both Jews and Gentiles together.
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.
hed'burro. In England, formerly, the chief of a frank-pledge, tithing or decennary, consisting of ten families; called in some counties, borsholder, that is, borough; s elder, and sometimes tithing man.
Phr. hominem pagina nostra sapit, homo homini aut deus aut lupus, homo vitae commodatus non donatus est
Pron.he, him, his
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