Part 5167

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The uppermost, foremost, or most 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>as, the <ex>head</ex> of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship</as>; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; <as>as, the <ex>head</ex> of a cask or a steam boiler</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The place where the head should go; <as>as, the <ex>head</ex> of a bed, of a grave, etc</as>.; the <i>head</i> of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; <as>as, the <ex>head</ex> of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like</as>.</def> "Their princes and <i>heads</i>."

<i>Robynson (More's Utopia). </i>

<blockquote>The <b>heads</b> of the chief sects of philosophy. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Your <b>head</b> I him appoint. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; <as>as, the <ex>head</ex> of the table; the <ex>head</ex> of a column of soldiers.</as></def>

<blockquote>An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the <b>head</b> of them. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; <as>as, a thousand <ex>head</ex> of cattle</as>.</def>

<blockquote>It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every <b>head</b>. <i>Graunt.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; <as>as, a good <ex>head</ex>, that is, a good mind; it never entered his <ex>head</ex>, it did not occur to him; of his own <ex>head</ex>, of his own thought or will.</as></def>

<blockquote>Men who had lost both <b>head</b> and heart. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; <as>as, the <ex>head</ex> of the Nile</as>; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; <as>as, a mill or reservoir has a good <ex>head</ex> of water, or ten feet <ex>head</ex></as>; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A headland; a promontory; <as>as, Gay <ex>Head</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; <as>as, the <ex>heads</ex> of a sermon</as>.</def>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.</def>

<blockquote>Ere foul sin, gathering <b>head</b>, shall break into corruption. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a <b>head</b>, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>12.</b> <def>Power; armed force.</def>

<blockquote>My lord, my lord, the French have gathered <b>head</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>13.</b> <def>A headdress; a covering of the head; <as>as, a laced <ex>head</ex>; a <ex>head</ex> of hair.</as></def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<p><b>14.</b> <def>An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.</def>

<p><b>15.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.</def>

<p><b>16.</b> <def>The antlers of a deer.</def>

<p><b>17.</b> <def>A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.</def>

<i>Mortimer.</i>