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inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.

Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

his suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

Adorned with eagles' heads.

A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead. Warburton.

Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidæ, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There a…

ually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. Broad arrow. (a) An arrow with a broad head. (b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.

t (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

ant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.…

ed from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

enance; mien; air. "Serious in aspect." Dryden. [Craggs] with aspect open shall erect his head. Pope.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

o dismay. [Archaic] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

ra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. Earth in her rich attire. Milton. I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire Jer. ii. 32.

Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak. Shak.

A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

r sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.…