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held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

s; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [They] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37.

the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.

One who acknowledges no head or superior. Dr. Gauden.

mes 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.

Headless.

The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.

aches; continuously painful. See Ache. -- Ach"ing*ly, adv. The aching heart, the aching head. Longfellow.

sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

lia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead.

gh Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

usiness of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius. "A talent for affairs." Prescott.

A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.