Part 5169

<h1>Headband</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"band`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A fillet; a band for the head.</def> "The <i>headbands</i> and the tablets."

<i>Is. iii. 20.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The band at each end of the back of a book.</def>

<h1>Headbeard</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"beard`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; <as>as, the <ex>headboard</ex> of a bed; the <ex>headboard</ex> of a grave.</as></def>

<h1>Headborough, Headborrow</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw><hw>Head"bor*ough</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Head"bor*row</hw><hw> <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also <altname>borsholder</altname>, <altname>boroughhead</altname>, <altname>boroughholder</altname>, and sometimes <altname>tithingman</altname>. See <er>Borsholder</er>.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Modern Law)</fld> <def>A petty constable.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Head-cheese</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"-cheese</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.</def>

<h1>Headdress</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"dress`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.</def>

<blockquote>Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful <b>headdress</b>, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.</def>

<h1>Headed</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; <as>as, clear-<ex>headed</ex>, long-<ex>headed</ex>, thick-<ex>headed</ex>; a many-<ex>headed</ex> monster.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Formed into a head; <as>as, a <ex>headed</ex> cabbage</as>.</def>

<h1>Header</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; <as>as, to take a <ex>header</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Headfirst, Headforemost</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw><hw>Head`first"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Head`fore"most`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With the head foremost.</def>

<h1>Headfish</h1> <Xpage=677>