head : Idioms & Phrases

-head suffix

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1. A variant of -hood.

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• a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. Shak.

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• noun someone who takes LSD
  

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• noun a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
  loon; birdbrain; addlehead.
  

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Ad"dle, brain`, Ad"dle, head`, Ad"dle, pate noun (Also<

• Addle-brain
• Addle-head
• Addle-pate

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1. A foolish or dull-witted fellow. Colloq.

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• noun the cutting head of an ax
  ax head.
  

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• noun the cutting head of an ax
  ax head.
  

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• widgeon, the American widgeon.

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• adjective satellite lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
  bald; bald-pated.
  
  • a bald pate
  • a bald-headed gentleman

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Bee"tle-head`ed adjective

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1. Dull; stupid. Shak.

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• noun small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina
  

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• noun common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head
  Vireo solitarius solitarius.
  

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Bluff"-head`ed adjective

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1. (Naut.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

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• noun bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns
  

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• (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies.

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• adjective satellite having a brachycephalic head
  roundheaded; broad-headed.
  

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Buc"kler-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a head like a buckler.

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Buf"fle-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. Obs.

   So fell this buffle-headed giant. Gayton.

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• adjective satellite obstinate and stupid
  bullheaded; pigheaded.
  
• adjective satellite having a small round head
  

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• adjective satellite having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly)
  

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• (Naut.), having the bows lower than the stern; said of a vessel when her head is lower in the water than her stern. If her stern is lower, she is by the stern.

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• the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull.

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• that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title.

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Cit"tern-head` noun

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1. Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

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Clear"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.

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• noun (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball
  club-head; club head; clubhead.
  

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• noun (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball
  club-head; club head; clubhead.
  

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Cool"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.

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• noun a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length
  half-free morel; Morchella semilibera.
  

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• noun a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
  monarch; sovereign.
  

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Cub"bridge-head` noun

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1. (Naut.) A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

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• noun shrubby clematis of the eastern United States having curly foliage
  Clematis ochreleuca.
  

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• (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine.

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• noun a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump
  

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• (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy.

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• noun a human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death
  

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Death's"-head` noun

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1. A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

   I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak.

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• noun European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull
  Acherontia atropos.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; called also death's-head sphinx.

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• noun the head of a department
  

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Dog"-head`ed adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.

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Dou"ble-head"ed adjective

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1. Having two heads; bicipital.

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• (Railroad), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.

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• noun American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers
  dragonhead; Dracocephalum parviflorum.
  

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• . (a) (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Dracocephalum. They are perennial herbs closely allied to the common catnip. (b) (Astron.) The ascending node of a planet, indicated, chiefly in almanacs, by the symbol . The deviation from the ecliptic made by a planet in passing from one node to the other seems, according to the fancy of some, to make a figure like that of a dragon, whose belly is where there is the greatest latitude; the intersections representing the head and tail; from which resemblance the denomination arises. Encyc. Brit.

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Dun"der-head`ed adjective

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1. Thick-headed; stupid.

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• See under Elevator, Feed, etc.

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• the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.

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• adjective satellite lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
  giddy; featherbrained; airheaded; lightheaded; empty-headed; dizzy; silly.
  
  • a dizzy blonde
  • light-headed teenagers
  • silly giggles

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• noun North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers
  obedient plant; Physostegia virginiana; false dragonhead.
  

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Feath"er-head` noun

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1. A frivolous or featherbrained person. Colloq. H. James.

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Feath"er-head`ed adjective

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1. Giddy; frivolous; foolish. Colloq. G. Eliot.

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• . (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which serves to render the casting more compact by its pressure; also called a riser, deadhead, or simply feed or head Knight.

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• an ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the volute or scroll at the head of a violin.

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• noun a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae
  

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• (Bot.), a compound flower in which all the florets are sessile on their receptacle, as in the case of the daisy.

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• . (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint.

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• through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. "Arm me, audacity, from head to foot." Shak.

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• adverb at all points from head to foot
  cap-a-pie.
  
  • he was armed cap-a-pie

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• noun a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff
  gaffsail.
  

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Gid"dy-head` noun

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1. A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. Colloq. Burton.

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Gid"dy-head`ed adjective

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1. Thoughtless; unsteady.

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• (Flax Manuf.), a spreader; a machine for subjecting flax to the action of gills. Knight.

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• noun (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball
  club-head; club head; clubhead.
  

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• adjective satellite showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
  gray-headed; gray; grey-haired; hoary; grizzly; grey; white-haired; hoar; gray-haired.
  
  • whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge
  • nodded his hoary head

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• the poachard.

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• adjective satellite showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
  gray-headed; gray; grey-haired; hoary; grizzly; grey; white-haired; hoar; gray-haired.
  
  • whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge
  • nodded his hoary head

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Gross"-head`ed adjective

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1. Thick-skulled; stupid.

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• . See Hammerhead.

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• negligently; rashly; without seeing what one does. Obs. Bacon.

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Hard"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd. -- Hard"-head`ed*ness, n.

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• noun a user of hashish
  

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• noun pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs
  cephalalgia; headache.
  

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• with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. Colloq.

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• . (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. "They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders." Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them.

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• adverb outstandingly superior to
  
  • in intelligence he was head and shoulders above the others in his class

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• noun a blight of the heads of cereals
  

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• noun any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves
  head cabbage; Brassica oleracea capitata.
  
• noun any of several varieties of cabbage having a large compact globular head; may be steamed or boiled or stir-fried or used raw in coleslaw
  

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• noun any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves
  head cabbage; Brassica oleracea capitata.
  

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• noun a common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache
  

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• noun number of people in a particular group
  headcount.
  

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• noun a garment that covers the head and face
  veil.
  

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• noun (computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)
  

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• . (Naut.) See 5th Fast.

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• verb flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  lam; run; hightail it; bunk; run away; take to the woods; scarper; escape; fly the coop; break away; scat; turn tail.
  
  • If you see this man, run!
  • The burglars escaped before the police showed up

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• noun the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
  delusion; illusion.
  

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• noun a gasket to seal a cylinder head
  

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• noun regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
  floodgate; sluicegate; penstock; sluice valve; water gate.
  
• noun a gate upstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end
  

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Head" gear`, Head"gear` noun (Also<

• Head gear
• Headgear

)

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1. Headdress.
2. Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.

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• verb return home
  go home.
  
  • After the movie, we went home

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big gun; big fish; big shot; big wheel; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

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• (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates the pronephors.

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• noun distinguished by leaves arranged in a dense rosette that develop into a compact ball
  Lactuca sativa capitata.
  

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• noun infestation of the scalp with lice
  pediculosis capitis.
  

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• noun a football official in charge of recording yardage gained or lost
  

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• noun infests the head and body of humans
  Pediculus capitis.
  

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• a capitation tax; a poll tax. Milton.

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• noun the person in charge of nursing in a medical institution
  

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• noun growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being
  mane.
  

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• noun the head of a household or family or tribe
  

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• noun the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government
  chief of state.
  

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• verb prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
  stave off; avert; debar; avoid; deflect; obviate; forefend; fend off; ward off; forfend.
  
  • Let's avoid a confrontation
  • head off a confrontation
  • avert a strike

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• this side or that side; this thing or that; a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side.

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• adverb in disorderly haste
  head over heels; topsy-turvily; topsy-turvy; in great confusion.
  
  • we ran head over heels toward the shelter

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• a poll tax. Obs.

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• noun the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
  head tone; head register.
  

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• noun a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash
  headrest.
  

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• noun use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
  initial rhyme; alliteration; beginning rhyme.
  
  • around the rock the ragged rascal ran

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• noun a sea in which the waves are running directly against the course of the ship
  

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• a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course.

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• noun a shop specializing in articles of interest to drug users
  
  • he bought some roach clips and hashish pipes at the head shop

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• noun smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut
  Sphacelotheca reiliana.
  

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• noun the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
  start.
  
  • with an hour's start he will be hard to catch

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• noun the educator who has executive authority for a school
  head; school principal; principal.
  
  • she sent unruly pupils to see the principal

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• noun the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
  head tone; head register.
  

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• noun an exciting or stimulating experience
  trip.
  
• noun the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure
  self-gratification.
  

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• verb be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
  head.
  
  • This student heads the class

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• noun the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
  head tone; head register.
  

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• a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course.

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• noun a content word that can be qualified by a modifier
  headword.
  
• noun (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
  head.
  

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Head"-cheese noun

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

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Head"-hunt`er noun

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1. 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. 2. (fig.) an executive personnel recruiter -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.

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• adjective satellite guided by whim and fancy
  flighty; flyaway; scatterbrained.
  
  • flighty young girls

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Head"-lugged` adjective

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

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• adjective satellite characterized by direct opposition
  
  • a head-on confrontation
• adjective satellite meeting front to front
  frontal.
  
  • a frontal attack
  • a head-on collision
• adverb in direct opposition; directly
  
  • we must meet the problem head-on
• adverb with the front foremost
  
  • the cars collided head-on

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• noun a physician who specializes in psychiatry
  shrink; psychiatrist.
  
• noun a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies
  headhunter.
  

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• adjective satellite involving two persons; intimately private
  tete-a-tete.
  
  • a tete-a-tete supper
  • a head-to-head conversation
• adjective satellite inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition
  nip and tuck; neck and neck.
  
  • as they approached the finish line they were neck and neck
  • the election was a nip and tuck affair
• adverb even or close in a race or competition or comparison
  nip and tuck; neck and neck.
  
  • the horses ran neck and neck
  • he won nip and tuck

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• noun a warning message
  
  • he sent a heads-up to the District Attorney
• adjective satellite fully alert and watchful
  wide-awake.
  
  • played heads-up ball

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Heav"y-head"ed adjective

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1. Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.

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• adverb in disorderly haste
  head over heels; topsy-turvily; topsy-turvy; in great confusion.
  
  • we ran head over heels toward the shelter

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• noun any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
  Selene setapinnis; horsefish; horsehead; dollarfish; moonfish; Atlantic moonfish.
  

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• (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.

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Hot"-head` noun

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

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Hot"-head`ed adjective

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

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• noun the head of a human being
  

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• noun the pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure
  

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I"dle-head`ed adjective

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1. Foolish; stupid. Obs. "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.
2. Delirious; infatuated. Obs. L'Estrange.

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Ja"nus-head`ed adjective

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1. Double-headed.

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• (Naut.), a projecting end of a timber, used as a kevel.

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• adjective satellite having a large head
  

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• adjective satellite exercising or showing good judgment
  healthy; levelheaded; sound; intelligent.
  
  • healthy scepticism
  • a healthy fear of rattlesnakes
  • the healthy attitude of French laws
  • healthy relations between labor and management
  • an intelligent solution
  • a sound approach to the problem
  • sound advice
  • no sound explanation for his decision

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• adjective satellite weak and likely to lose consciousness
  light; swooning; faint; lightheaded.
  
  • suddenly felt faint from the pain
  • was sick and faint from hunger
  • felt light in the head
  • a swooning fit
  • light-headed with wine
  • light-headed from lack of sleep
• adjective satellite lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
  giddy; featherbrained; airheaded; lightheaded; empty-headed; dizzy; silly.
  
  • a dizzy blonde
  • light-headed teenagers
  • silly giggles

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Light"-head`ed adjective

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1. Disordered in the head; dilirious. Walpole.
2. Thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose. "Light-headed, weak men." Clarendon. -- Light"-head`ed*ness, n.

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• noun similar to Gutierrezia sarothrae but with flower heads having fewer rays and disk flowers
  Gutierrezia microcephala.
  

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• noun plant similar to the Mexican hat coneflower; from British Columbia to New Mexico
  prairie coneflower; Ratibida columnifera.
  

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• adjective satellite having a dolichocephalic head
  

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Mad"-head`ed adjective

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1. Wild; crack-brained.

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• noun an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface and later retrieved
  

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• noun African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches
  Euphorbia caput-medusae; Euphorbia medusae.
  
• noun weedy rye grass having long bristling awns
  Elymus caput-medusae.
  

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• . (a) (Zoöl.) An astrophyton . (b) (Astron.) A cluster of stars in the constellation Perseus. It contains the bright star Algol.

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• (Zoöl.), a European spatangoid sea urchin (Echinocardium cordatum) having some resemblance to a skull.

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• the head of a micrometer screw.

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• the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill.

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• . (a) The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened . (b) A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop . U.S.

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• adjective satellite (of trees) having a bushy top without a leader
  
  • mop-headed cabbage palms

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Mud"dy-head`ed adjective

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1. Dull; stupid.

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Mush"room-head`ed adjective

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1. (Bot.) Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.

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Nail"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail.

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• arrowheaded or cuneiform characters. See under Arrowheaded.

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• (Arch.), an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided pyramids resembling the heads of large nails; called also nail-head molding, or nail-head. It is the same as the simplest form of dogtooth. See Dogtooth.

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• (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. Cant

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• neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. Colloq.

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• noun a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
  figurehead; straw man; front; strawman; front man.
  

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• noun terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head; of the United States southwest
  lowland burrowing treefrog; Pternohyla fodiens.
  

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Nott"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having the hair cut close. Obs. Chapman.

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• (Bot.), a columnar cactus (Pilocereus senilis), native of Mexico, covered towards the top with long white hairs.

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O"pen-head`ed adjective

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1. Bareheaded. Obs.

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• beyond commanding one's mental powers; in a wandering state mentally; delirious. Colloq.

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• according to one's own idea; without advice or coöperation of another.

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• beyond one's depth; completely; wholly; hopelessly; as, over head and ears in debt. = head over heels Colloq.

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• beyond the comprehension of. M. Arnold. go over one's head = appeal to one's superior in line of command

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Pig"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.

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• noun a consumer of amphetamine pills
  

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• (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod.

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• the surface of the ground at the mouth of a pit or mine.

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• noun measuring instrument consisting of a combined Pitot tube and static tube that measures total and static pressure; used in aircraft to measure airspeed
  Pitot tube; Pitot-static tube.
  

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• . See Headstock (a).

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• noun a person who is not very bright
  pillock; dullard; poor fish; stupe; stupid; pudden-head; stupid person; dolt.
  
  • The economy, stupid!

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• noun a person who is not very bright
  pillock; dullard; poor fish; stupe; stupid; pudden-head; stupid person; dolt.
  
  • The economy, stupid!

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Pud"ding-head`ed adjective

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1. Stupid. Colloq.

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Puz"zle-head`ed adjective

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1. Having the head full of confused notions. Johnson.

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• noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
  Cypripedium arietinum; ram's-head.
  

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• noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
  Cypripedium arietinum; ram's-head.
  

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Rat"tle-head`ed adjective

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1. Noisy; giddy; unsteady.

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• noun (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
  head.
  

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• noun the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns
  rotor shaft.
  

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• noun Old World leek with a spherical bulb
  Allium sphaerocephalum.
  

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Rug"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having shaggy hair; shock-headed. Obs.

   Those rough rug-headed kerns. Shak.

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• noun a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book
  running headline.
  

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• (Med.), a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.

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• . (Med.) See Scald head, under Scald, a.

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Sheep"-head`ed adjective

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1. Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)

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Shock"-head` adjective

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1. Shock-headed. Tennyson.

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• adjective satellite having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair
  
  • shock-headed teenagers

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Shock"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a thick and bushy head of hair.

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• adjective satellite having a brachycephalic head
  roundheaded; broad-headed.
  

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• (Founding), a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; called also sinking head, and riser.

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• (Founding), a riser from which the mold is fed as the casting shrinks. See Riser, n., 4.

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• noun Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental
  guinea-hen flower; checkered daffodil; Fritillaria meleagris; leper lily.
  

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Snake's"-head` noun

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1. (Bot.) The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. Dr. Prior.

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• (Bot.), an iridaceous plant (Hermodactylus tuberosus) of the Mediterranean region. The flowers slightly resemble a serpent's open mouth.

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• noun showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple
  Chelone glabra; shellflower; turtlehead; shell-flower; snakehead.
  

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Soft"-head`ed adjective

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1. Weak in intellect.

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• noun any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines
  acanthocephalan.
  

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• noun two facing pages of a book or other publication
  spread; facing pages; spreadhead.
  

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• noun a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right
  stagger head; drop line; stepped line; stephead; dropline.
  

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• noun a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right
  stagger head; drop line; stepped line; stephead; dropline.
  

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• a heavy mass of metal, forming the head or lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a stamp mill.

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• (Mach.), a journal box, or pair of brasses, secured to the end of a connecting rod by a strap. See Illust. of Gib and key, under Gib.

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• noun an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
  self-importance; egotism.
  

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• a dolt; a blockhead. Obs. Chaucer.

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• adjective satellite characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
  egotistic; swollen; conceited; self-conceited; vain; egotistical.
  
  • a conceited fool
  • an attitude of self-conceited arrogance
  • an egotistical disregard of others
  • so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty
  • growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary
  • vain about her clothes

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• noun a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen
  

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Thick"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a thick skull; stupid.

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Thorn"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a head armed with thorns or spines.

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• (Zoöl.), any worm of the order Acanthocephala; called also thornhead.

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• . See Brussels sprouts.

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• to be temporarily insane.

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• . See under Come, Draw.

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• . (a) To suppurate, as a boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

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• . (a) (Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b) Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action; as, the plot draws to a head.

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• to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. "He gave his able horse the head." Shak. "He has so long given his unruly passions their head." South.

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• . See under Head, n.

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• to turn over so as to bring the heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or rash, manner.

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• . (a) To be choleric. Obs. (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.

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• to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.

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• to intercept; to get before; as, an officer heads off a thief who is escaping.

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• to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.

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• before his face. "An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head." Jer. Taylor.

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• to hit most effectively; to do or say a thing in the right way.

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• to keep afloat; fig., to avoid failure or sinking in the struggles of life. Colloq.

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• to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash. Colloq.

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• to consult.
• to consult; to conspire.

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• to be imputed to.

  What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. Shak.

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• to cause one to be exalted or to rejoice. Gen. xl. 13. Luke xxi. 28.

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• to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment.

  In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads. Whitney.

• to lose presence of mind.

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• to make headway.

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• to resist with success; to advance.

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• to appear. Shak.

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• to turn the face or front. "The ravishers turn head, the fight renews." Dryden.

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• to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head.

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Tough"-head` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) The ruddy duck. Local U.S.

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Tow"-head` noun

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1. An urchin who has soft, whitish hair. Colloq.
2. (Zoöl.) The hooded merganser. Local, U.S.

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• noun boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America; looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape
  rubber boa; Charina bottae.
  

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• noun the beginning of a trail
  trailhead.
  

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Tri"ple-head`ed adjective

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1. Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.

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• (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in.

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• noun an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban
  

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• . (a) (Naut.) A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) (Bot.) See Turk's cap (c) above.

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• (Mach.), a vertical cylindrical revolving tool holder for bringing different tools into action successively in a machine, as in a lathe.

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• noun internal-combustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head
  

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Wag"on-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

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• noun stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck
  Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus.
  

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• adjective satellite (used informally) stupid
  duncical; loggerheaded; blockheaded; duncish; fatheaded; boneheaded; thick; thick-skulled; thickheaded.
  

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Wool"ly-head` noun

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1. A negro. Low

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• adjective satellite confused and vague; used especially of thinking
  wooly; muddled; muzzy; addled; woolly; befuddled; wooly-minded.
  
  • muddleheaded ideas
  • your addled little brain
  • woolly thinking
  • woolly-headed ideas

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