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Head [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. hed.

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.

4. Thirty thousand head of swine.

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.

9. Face; front; forepart.

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.

18. The upper part of a bed, or bed-stead.

19. The brain.

20. They turn their heads to imitate the sun.

21. The dress of the head; as a laced head [Unusual.]

22. The principal source of a stream; as the head of the Nile.

23. Altitude of water in ponds, as applicable to the driving of mill-wheels. The mill has a good head of water.

24. Topic of discourse; chief point or subject; a summary; as the heads of a discourse or treatise.

25. Crisis; pitch; highth. The disease has grown to such a head as to threaten life.

26. Influence; force; strength; pitch. The sedition got to such a head as not to be easily quelled.

27. Body; conflux.

28. Power; armed force.

29. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head

30. Liberty; freedom from restrain; as, to give a horse the head Hence,

31. License; freedom from check, control or restraint.

32. Children should not have their heads.

33. He has too long given his unruly passions the head

34. The hair of the head; as a head of hair.

35. The top of corn or other plant; the part on which the seed grows.

36. The end, or the boards that form the end; as the head of a cask.

37. The part most remote from the mouth or opening into the sea; as the head of a bay, gulf or creek.

38. The maturated part of an ulcer or boil; hence, to come to a head is to suppurate.

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.

Head [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. hed. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

2. A broad river that heads in the great Blue Ridge of mountains.

Head [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. hed. To lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army; to head an expedition; to head a riot.

2. To behead; to decapitate. [Unusual.]

3. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.

4. To lop; as, to head trees.

5. To go in front of; to get into the front; as, to head a drove of cattle.

6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.

7. To oppose; to veer round and blow in opposition to the course of a ship; as, the wind heads us.

Head [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Head [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.

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.

12. Power; armed force.

13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.

14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.

15. A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.

16. A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.

17. The antlers of a deer.

18. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.

19. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

Head [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

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.

Head [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.

3. To behead; to decapitate.

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.

Head Encyclopedia Britannica

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.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 11, p. 551
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Head Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

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 ...

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Head gear [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Headgear

Head-cheese [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.

Head-hunter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Head-lugged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lugged or dragged by the head.

Head-pan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

hed'-pan. The brain-pan. [Not in use.]

Head-piece [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. hed'-pece. Armor for the head; a helmet; a morion.

2. Understanding; force of mind. [Not common.]

Head-rope [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

hed'-rope. That part of a bolt-rope which terminates any sail on the upper edge, and to which it is sewed.

Head-sail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

hed'-sail. The head-sails of a ship are the sails which are extended on the fore-mast and bowsprit, as the foresail, foretop-sail, jib, etc.

Head-sea [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

hed'-sea. Waves that meet the head of a ship or roll against her course.

Head-wind [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

hed'-wind. A wind that blows in a direction opposite to the ship's course.

Head-workman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The chief workman of a party; a foreman in a manufactory.

Headach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

hed'ake. Pain in the head.

Headache [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

Headachy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Afflicted with headache.

Headband [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

hed'band. A fillet; a band for the head; also, the band at each end of a book. Isaiah 3:20 .

Headband [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A fillet; a band for the head.

2. The band at each end of the back of a book.

Headbeard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.

Headborough [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Headborough [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Headborrow

Headborrow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder.

2. A petty constable.

Headdress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. hed'dress. The dress of the head; the covering or ornaments of a woman's head.

2. The crest, or tuft of feathers on a fowl's head.

Headdress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.

2. A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.

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Genesis 2:10

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Genesis 24:26

And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.

Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,

Genesis 24:48

And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.

Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

Genesis 28:11

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

Genesis 28:18

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

Genesis 31:21

So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 40:13

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

Genesis 40:16

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.

Genesis 40:17

And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

Genesis 40:19

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

Genesis 40:20

And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

Genesis 41:5

And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

Genesis 41:6

And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:7

And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.

Genesis 41:22

And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.

Genesis 41:23

And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:24

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”

Genesis 41:26

The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.

Genesis 41:27

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.