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Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

ted representation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.

A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott.

rk, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air. Fairholt.

A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.

A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton.

A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.

A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.

A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.

A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

for consecration. Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his [Aaron's] head and anoint him. Exod. xxix. 7. Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. 1 Kings xix. 15. The Lord's Anointed, Christ or the Messiah; also, a Jewish or other king by "divine right." 1 Sam. xxvi. 9.

Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the in…

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns,…

e the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.