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The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated. Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Gen. iii. 16. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God;…

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.

Headdress.

A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.

A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.

Lugged or dragged by the head. [R.] "The head-lugged bear." Shak.

Pain in the head; ceph "Headaches and shivering fits." Macaulay.

Afflicted with headache. [Colloq.]

A fillet; a band for the head. "The headbands and the tablets." Is. iii. 20.

A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.

The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] Blackstone.

A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison.

Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.

One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

With the head foremost.

The sunfish (Mola).

In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.

The quality of being heady.

The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.

A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak.