Part 5174

<h1>Headway</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"way`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.</def><-- = clearance, or headroom[Brit.] -->

<h1>Headwork</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"work`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Mental labor.</def>

<h1>Heady</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Head"y</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Head</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.</def>

<blockquote>All the talent required is to be hot, to be <b>heady</b>, -- to be violent on one side or the other. <i>Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.</def>

<blockquote>The liquor is too <b>heady</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Violent; impetuous.</def> "A <i>heady</i> currance."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Heal</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Heal</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Hele</er>.]</ety> <def>To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Heal</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Heal</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Healed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Healing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>helen</ets>, <ets>h\'91len</ets>, AS. <ets>h\'d6lan</ets>, fr. <ets>h\'bel</ets> hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. <ets>h&emac;lian</ets>, D. <ets>heelen</ets>, G. <ets>heilen</ets>, Goth. <ets>hailjan</ets>. See <er>Whole</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.</def>

<blockquote>Speak the word only, and my servant shall be <b>healed</b>. <i>Matt. viii. 8.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.</def>

<blockquote>I will <b>heal</b> their backsliding. <i>Hos. xiv. 4.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To restore to original purity or integrity.</def>

<blockquote>Thus saith the Lord, I have <b>healed</b> these waters. <i>2 Kings ii. 21.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to <b>heal</b> dissensions</def>.

<h1>Heal</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Heal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To grow sound; to return to a sound state; <as>as, the limb <ex>heals</ex>, or the wound <ex>heals</ex></as>; -- sometimes with <i>up</i> or <i>over</i>; <as>as, it will <ex>heal</ex> up, or over</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Those wounds <b>heal</b> ill that men do give themselves. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Heal</h1> <Xpage=677>

<hw>Heal</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>h<?/lu</ets>, <ets>h<?/l</ets>. See <er>Heal</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>Health.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>