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HEAD, n. hed.
1. The uppermost part of the human body, or the foremost part of the body of prone and creeping animals. This part of the human body contains the organs of hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling it contains also the brain, which is supposed to be the seat of the intellectual powers, and of sensation. Hence the head is the chief or more important part, and is used for the whole person, in the phrase, let the evil fall on my head.
2. An animal an individual as,the tax was raised by a certain rate per head. And we use the singular number to express many. The herd contains twenty head of oxen.
Thirty thousand head of swine.
3. A chief a principal person a leader a commander one who has the first rank or place,and to whom others are subordinate as the head of an army the head of a sect or party. Ephesians 5
4. The first place the place of honor, or of command. The lord mayor sat at the head of the table. The general marched at the head of his troops.
5. Countenance presence in the phrases, to hide the head, to show the head.
6. Understanding faculties of the mind sometimes in a ludicrous sense as, a man has a good head, or a strong head. These men laid their heads together to form the scheme. Never trouble your head about this affair. So we say, to beat the head to break the head that is, to study hard, to exercise the understanding or mental faculties.
7. Face front forepart.
The ravishers turn head, the fight renews. Unusual.
8. Resistance successful opposition in the phrase, to make head against, that is, to advance, or resist with success.
9. Spontaneous will or resolution in the phrases, of his own head, on their own head. But of is more usual than on.
10. State of a deer's horns by which his age is known. The buck is called, the fifth year, a buck of the first head.
11. The top of a thing, especially when larger than the rest of the thing as the head of a spear the head of a cabbage the head of a nail the head of a mast.
12. The forepart of a thing, as the head of a ship, which includes the bows on both sides also,the ornamental figure or image erected on or before the stem of a ship.
13. The blade or cutting part of an ax, distinct from the helve.
14. That which rises on the top as the head or yeast of beer.
15. The upper part of a bed, or bed-stead.
16. The brain.
They turn their heads to imitate the sun.
17. The dress of the head as a laced head. Unusual.
18. The principal source of a stream as the head of the Nile.
19. Altitude of water in ponds, as applicable to the driving of mill-wheels. The mill has a good head of water.
20. Topic of discourse chief point or subject a summary as the heads of a discourse or treatise.
21. Crisis pitch highth. The disease has grown to such a head as to threaten life.
22. Influence force strength pitch. The sedition got to such a head as not to be easily quelled.
23. Body conflux.
24. Power armed force.
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
25. Liberty freedom from restrain as, to give a horse the head. Hence,
26. License freedom from check, control or restraint. Children should not have their heads.
He has too long given his unruly passions the head.
27. The hair of the head as a head of hair.
28. The top of corn or other plant the part on which the seed grows.
29. The end, or the boards that form the end as the head of a cask.
30. The part most remote from the mouth or opening into the sea as the head of a bay, gulf or creek.
31. The maturated part of an ulcer or boil hence, to come to a head, is to suppurate.
Head and ears, a phrase denoting the whole person, especially when referring to immersion. He plunged head and ears into the water. He was head and ears in debt, that is, completely overwhelmed.
Head and shoulders, by force violently as, to drag one head and shoulders.
They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.
Head or tail, or head nor tail, uncertain not reducible to certainty.
Head, as an adj. or in composition, chief principal as a head workman.
By the head, in seamen's language, denotes the state of a ship laden too deeply at the fore-end.
HEAD, hed. To lead to direct to act as leader to as, to head an army to head an expedition to head a riot.
1. To behead to decapitate. Unusual.
2. To form a head to to fit or furnish with a head as, to head a nail.
3. To lop as, to head trees.
4. To go in front of to get into the front as, to head a drove of cattle.
5. To set on the head as, to head a cask.
6. To oppose to veer round and blow in opposition to the course of a ship as, the wind heads us.
HEAD, hed. To originate to spring to have its source, as a river.
A broad river that heads in the great Blue Ridge of mountains.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Head'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/head.html.
Entry for 'Head'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/head.html.
