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enus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great ra…

To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. Totten.

A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship. Totten.

contrary to nature. [R.] Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

an tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.

A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. Totten.

Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.

The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net. Spenser.

The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant.

One of the court party in the time of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon.

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

Hundred-headed.

Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

Pain in the head; headache.

Relating to, or affected with, headache. -- n.

A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.

A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having a head.

Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior. Cephalic index (Anat.), the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients…