| Addle-head |
Alt. of Addle-pate |
n. |
| Shock-head |
Shock-headed. |
a. |
| Snake's-head |
The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. |
n. |
| Tough-head |
The ruddy duck. |
n. |
| Tow-head |
An urchin who has soft, whitish hair. |
n. |
| Tow-head |
The hooded merganser. |
n. |
| Woolly-head |
A negro. |
n. |
| Cittern |
An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. |
n. |
| Cubbridge-head |
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. |
n. |
| Death's-head |
A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. |
n. |
| Dragon's head |
Alt. of Dragon's tail |
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| Feather-head |
A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
n. |
| Giddy-head |
A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. |
n. |
| -head |
A variant of -hood. |
suffix. |
| Head |
The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. |
n. |
| Head |
The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. |
n. |
| Head |
The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. |
n. |
| Head |
The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. |
n. |
| Head |
The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. |
n. |
| Head |
Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. |
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