Definition of head

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Head (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?.

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Dracontic :: Dracontic (a.) Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon..
Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does..
Nun :: Nun (n.) A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
Trundlehead :: Trundlehead (n.) The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis..
Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.
Loggerheaded :: Loggerheaded (a.) Dull; stupid.
Cephalotome :: Cephalotome (n.) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery..
Wagon-roofed :: Wagon-roofed (a.) Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed..
Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..
Recapitulate :: Recapitulate (v. i.) To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance..
Pop :: Pop (v. t.) To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door..
Detruncation :: Detruncation (n.) The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body..
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Forge :: Forge (v. t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead..
Facies :: Facies (n.) The anterior part of the head; the face.
Level :: Level (a.) Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.].
Sorehead :: Sorehead (n.) One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like..
Dunderpate :: Dunderpate (n.) See Dunderhead.
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