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<p><b>18.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<note>&hand; <i>Head</i> is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, <i>head</i> gear or <i>head</i>gear, <i>head</i> rest. Cf. <er>Head</er>, <tt>a.</tt></note>

<cs><col>A buck of the first head</col>, <cd>a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>By the head</col>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>By</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Elevator head</col>, <col>Feed head</col>, etc.</mcol> <cd>See under <er>Elevator</er>, <er>Feed</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col>From head to foot</col>, <cd>through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. "Arm me, audacity, from <i>head to foot<i>." <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>Head and ears</col>, <cd>with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was <i>head and ears</i> in debt or in trouble.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>Head fast</col></mcol>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>See 5th <er>Fast</er>.</cd> -- <col>Head kidney</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates<?/ the pronephors.</cd> -- <col>Head money</col>, <cd>a capitation tax; a poll tax. <i>Milton</i>.</cd> -- <col>Head pence</col>, <cd>a poll tax.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> -- <col>Head sea</col>, <cd>a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course.</cd> -- <col>Head and shoulders</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>By force; violently; as, to drag one, <i>head and shoulders<i>. "They bring in every figure of speech, <i>head and shoulders<i>." <i>Felton</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is <i>head and shoulders<i> above them.</cd> -- <col>Head or tail</col>, <cd>this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, <i>head<i> 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 <i>tail<i> the other side.</cd> -- <col>Neither head nor tail</col>, <cd>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 <i>neither head nor tail</i> of the matter.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>Head wind</col>, <cd>a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course.</cd> -- <col>Out one's own head</col>, <cd>according to one's own idea; without advice or co\'94peration of another.</cd> <col>Over the head of</col>, <cd>beyond the comprehension of. <i>M. Arnold</i>.</cd><-- go over one's head = appeal to one's superior in line of command --> -- <col>To be out of one's head</col>, <cd>to be temporarily insane.</cd> -- <col>To come or draw to a head</col>. <cd>See under <er>Come</er>, <er>Draw</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To give (one) <col>the head</col>, &or; <col>To give head</col></mcol>, <cd>to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. "He <i>gave<i> his able horse <i>the head<i>." <i>Shak</i>. "He has so long <i>given<i> his unruly passions their <i>head<i>." <i>South</i>.</cd> -- <col>To his head</col>, <cd>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 <i>to his head<i>." <i>Jer. Taylor</i>.</cd> -- <col>To lay heads together</col>, <cd>to consult; to conspire.</cd> -- <col>To lose one's head</col>, <cd>to lose presence of mind.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To make head</col>, &or; <col>To make head against</col></mcol>, <cd>to resist with success; to advance.</cd> -- <col>To show one's head</col>, <cd>to appear. <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>To turn head</col>, <cd>to turn the face or front. "The ravishers <i>turn head<i>, the fight renews." <i>Dryden</i>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Head</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Principal; chief; leading; first; <as>as, the <ex>head</ex> master of a school; the <ex>head</ex> man of a tribe; a <ex>head</ex> chorister; a <ex>head</ex> cook.</as></def>

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<hw>Head</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Headed</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Heading</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; <as>as, to <ex>head</ex> an army, an expedition, or a riot</as>.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; <as>as, to <ex>head</ex> a nail</as>.</def>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To behead; to decapitate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To cut off the top of; to lop off; <as>as, to <ex>head</ex> trees</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; <as>as, to <ex>head</ex> a drove of cattle; to <ex>head</ex> a person; the wind <ex>heads</ex> a ship.</as></def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To set on the head; <as>as, to <ex>head</ex> a cask</as>.</def>

<cs><col>To head off</col>, <cd>to intercept; to get before; as, an officer <i>heads off<i> a thief who is escaping.</cd> -- <col>To head up</col>, <cd>to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Head</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To originate; to spring; to have its <?/ourse, as a river.</def>

<blockquote>A broad river, that <b>heads</b> in the great Blue Ridge. <i>Adair.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship <i>head</i>?</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To form a head; <as>as, this kind of cabbage <ex>heads</ex> early</as>.</def>

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<hw>Head"ache`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Pain in the head; ceph<?/lalgia.</def> "<i>Headaches</i> and shivering fits."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

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<hw>Head"ach`y</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Afflicted with headache.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>