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t important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship;…

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.

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.

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

Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.