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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,822 words match “HEAD”

BEHEAD v.
To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
BEHEADAL n.
,n.Beheading. [Modern]
BILLETHEAD n.
A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.
BILLHEAD n.
A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.
BLACKHEAD n.
The scaup duck.
BLOCKHEAD n.
A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.
BLOCKHEADED a.
Stupid; dull.
BLOCKHEADISM n.
That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.
BLUFF-HEADED a.
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
BLUNDERHEAD n.
A stupid, blundering fellow.
BOLTHEAD n. 2 definitions
The head of a bolt.
BOROUGHHEAD n.
See Headborough. [Obs.]
BOTTLEHEAD n.
A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.
BOUNTIHEAD; BOUNTYHOOD n.
Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] Spenser.
BOWHEAD n.
The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.
BRIDGEHEAD n.
A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tête-de-pont.
BUCKLER-HEADED a.
Having a head like a buckler.
BUFFERHEAD n.
The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
BUFFLE-HEADED a.
Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [Obs.] So fell this buffle-headed giant. Gayton.
BUFFLEHEAD n. 2 definitions
One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.] What makes you stare so, bufflehead Plautus (trans. 1694).
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