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A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To take out the head of; as, to unhead a cask.

Untriftiness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

A source, spring, or fountain. At the wellhead the purest streams arise. Spenser. Our public-school and university life is a great wellhead of new and irresponsible words. Earle.

The blue-winged snow goose.

A form of self-propelling torpedo.

Womanhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The buffel duck.

A negro. [Low]

Wrongheaded. [R.] Pope.

Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

The superior or head of an abbey.

e ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above.

oached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

Authoritative; peremptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.