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A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.

The redfin.

A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.

Having a round head or top.

The upper end of the rudderpost, to which the tiller is attashed.

Having shaggy hair; shock-headed. [Obs.] Those rough rug-headed kerns. Shak.

The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. [Low]

of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.

Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)

A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.

Shock-headed. Tennyson.

Having a thick and bushy head of hair.

A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.

A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

The surf duck.

A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.

ower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. Dr. Prior. Snake's-head iris (Bot.), an iridaceous plant (Hermodactylus tuberosus) of the Mediterranean region. The flowers slightly resemble a serpent's open mouth.

The turtlehead.

A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.