HEADING
drift, heading, gallery
(noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; “they dug a drift parallel with the vein”
heading, header, head
(noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; “the heading seemed to have little to do with the text”
bearing, heading, aim
(noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
heading
present participle of head
Noun
heading (plural headings)
The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
(nautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
(mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
(sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
(masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
(flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
Source: Wiktionary
Head"ing, n.
1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a
head.
2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
4. (Mining.)
Definition: A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift
or gallery; the vein above a drift.
5. (sewing)
Definition: The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
6. (Masonry)
Definition: That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
Knight. Heading course (Arch.), a course consisting only of headers.
See Header, n. 3 (a).
– Heading joint. (a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards,
etc., at right angles to the grain of the wood. (b) (Masonry) A joint
between two roussoirs in the same course.
HEAD
-head, suffix.
Definition: A variant of -hood.
Head, n. Etym: [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. heáfod; akin to D. hoofd,
OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. höfu, Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth.
haubip. The word does not corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf.
E. Chief, Cadet, Capital), and its origin is unknown.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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. "Their princes and heads." Robynson (More's
Utopia).
The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson.
Your head I him appoint. Milton.
5. 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.
An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at
the head of them. Addison.
6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural
sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for
every head. Graunt.
7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the
mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never
entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his
own thought or will.
Men who had lost both head and heart. Macaulay.
8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or
river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source,
or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as
above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from
the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve;
as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head;
also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the
sea.
9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. Shak.
10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be
expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. Shak.
The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to
such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself.
Addison.
12. Power; armed force.
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. Shak.
13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of
hair. Swift.
14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
15. (Bot.)
(a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a
capitulum.
(b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce
plant.
16. The antlers of a deer.
17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other
effervescing liquor. Mortimer.
18. pl.
Definition: Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. Knight.
Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. Head, a. A
buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it
attains its complete set of antlers. Shak.
– By the head. (Naut.) See under By.
– Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator, Feed, etc.
– From head to foot, through the whole length of a man; completely;
throughout. "Arm me, audacity, from head to foot." Shak.
– Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he
was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] -- Head fast.
(Naut.) See 5th Fast.
– Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of
embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates -- Head money, a
capitation tax; a poll tax. Milton.
– Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.] -- Head sea, a sea that meets the
head of a vessel or rolls against her course.
– Head and shoulders. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one,
head and shoulders. "They bring in every figure of speech, head and
shoulders." Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders;
hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and
shoulders above them.
– Head or tail, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a
phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or
stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or
principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either
side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side.
– Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither this
thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in
speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither
head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] -- Head wind, a wind that
blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course.
– Out one's own head, according to one's own idea; without advice
or coöperation of another. Over the head of, beyond the comprehension
of. M. Arnold.
– To be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane.
– To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw.
– To give (one) the head, or To give head, to let go, or to give
up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. "He gave his
able horse the head." Shak. "He has so long given his unruly passions
their head." South.
– To his head, before his face. "An uncivil answer from a son to a
father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater
indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to
his head." Jer. Taylor.
– To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire.
– To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind.
– To make head, or To make head against, to resist with success; to
advance.
– To show one's head, to appear. Shak.
– To turn head, to turn the face or front. "The ravishers turn
head, the fight renews." Dryden.
Head, a.
Definition: Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a
school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
Head, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Headed; p. pr. & vb. n. Heading.]
1. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead;
to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition,
or a riot. Dryden.
2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a
nail. Spenser.
3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] Shak.
4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
5. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or
stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of
cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask. To head off, to intercept;
to get before; as, an officer heads off a thief who is escaping.
– To head up, to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.
Head, v. i.
1. To originate; to spring; to have its
A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge. Adair.
2. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the
ship head
3. To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition