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A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge.

hed to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith. While overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Milton.

Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed, establishment, or (in a manufacturing business) a…

To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice. Shak.

To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper.

Excessively heavy.

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

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

The pointed head, or end, of a spear.

Abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.

The head or top of a staircase.

seborrhea.

To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven.

An apparatus for superheating steam.

A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - - often appearing before a thunderstorm.

The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.

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

To heave or lift from below. [Obs.] Wyclif.

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

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