Definition of head

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Head (n.) 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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Tire :: Tire (n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.
Helve :: Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
Hood :: Hood (n.) A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed..
Tail :: Tail (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression heads or tails, employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall..
Cope :: Cope (n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door..
Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..
Bufflehead :: Bufflehead (n.) One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow..
Aloft :: Aloft (adv.) In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven..
Cephalalgy :: Cephalalgy (n.) Pain in the head; headache.
Halter :: Halter (n.) A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse..
Yellowhammer :: Yellowhammer (n.) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark..
Centicipitous :: Centicipitous (a.) Hundred-headed.
Redhead :: Redhead (n.) A person having red hair.
Wantwit :: Wantwit (n.) One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.
Flathead :: Flathead (n.) A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1..
Caput :: Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum..
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen..
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Sap :: Sap (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
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