head

1. 1

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.countable

   • Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
2. 2

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.; To do with heads.countableuncountable

   • The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
   • He has no head for heights.
3. 3

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.; To do with heads.countablefigurativelymetonymically

   • This song keeps going through my head.
4. 4

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.; To do with heads.countableuncountable

   • He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “head” that followed after drink.
   • "Now you have done it, Spuds," said Cripps. "You'll have an awful head on you tomorrow."
5. 5

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.; To do with heads.countableuncountable

   • a laced head
   • a head of hair
6. 6

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.; To do with heads.countablefigurativelymetonymically

   • Admission is three dollars a head.
7. 7

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.; To do with heads.countableuncountable

   • 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
8. 8

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.; To do with heads.countableuncountable

   • We have a heavy head of deer this year.
9. 9

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.; To do with heads.countableuncountable

10. 10

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part.countable

    • What does it say at the head of the page?

syn. bean · beaner · belfry · block · bonce · brainbox · brain bucket · calabash · dome · head · loaf · lolly

1. 1

   Of, relating to, or intended for the head.not-comparable

1. 1

   To be in command of. (See also head up.)transitive

   • Who heads the board of trustees?
   • to head an army, an expedition, or a riot
2. 2

   To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.transitive

   • A group of clowns headed the procession.
   • The most important items headed the list.
3. 3

   To strike with the headtransitive

   • to head the ball
4. 4

   To move in a specified direction.intransitive

   • We are going to head up North for our holiday.
   • We will head off tomorrow.
5. 5

   To remove the head from (a fish).transitive

   • Near-synonym: (of people) behead /dehead
   • The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
6. 6

   To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.intransitive

   • a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,
   • The Templeton heads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]
7. 7

   To form a head.intransitive

   • This kind of cabbage heads early.
8. 8

   To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.transitiveusually

   • to head a nail
9. 9

   To cut off the top of; to lop off.transitive

   • to head trees
10. 10

    To behead; to decapitate.obsoletetransitive

    • I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those who headed, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.
    • If you head, and hang all that offend that way but for ten yeare together; you'll be glad to giue out a Commission for more heads

1. 1

   Foremost in rank or importance.not-comparable

   • the head cook
2. 2

   Placed at the top or the front.not-comparable

3. 3

   Coming from in front.not-comparable

   • head sea
   • head wind