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One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.

To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse. [Written also champfrain and chamfrain.]

The fore part of a horse's head.

e it. Goldsmith. To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to right, or from the right to the left. -- To change hands, to change owners. -- To change one's tune, to become less confident or boastful. [Colloq.] -- To change step, to take a…

hat or covering for the head.

A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.

A location or compartment. In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom Shak. Chapter head, or Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title. -- Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. -- The chapter of accidents, chance. Marryat.

A large dish. [Obs.] Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8.

o stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb. So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression. Burke.

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

A chief of head person.

ing plants, of the order Scrophulariaceaæ., natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.

An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

owledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

To place in a coffin. [Obs.] He dieth and is chested. Gen. 1. 26 (heading).

The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the pricipal actio or agent.

A tribute by the head; a capitation tax. [Written also chevage and chivage.] [Obs.]

A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.