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A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.

The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head (Med.), an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe. -- Horsehoe nail. See Horsenail. -- Horse…

A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.

Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement. Macaulay.

Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.

Having a fierly spirit; hot-headed.

A rash, hot-headed man. Holinshed.

Violent; impetuous; headstrong. Spenser. Peacham.

The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good housewife she. Dryden.

A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition.

s; hence, any arousing sound or call. [Obs.] Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.

w with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main. Pope.

The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]

Morgagni (Anat.), one of the small pedunculated bodies found between the testicle and the head of the epididymis, and supposed to be a remnant of the Müllerian duct.

or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Milton.

A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.

is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.

s. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey.