Vocabulary : Headborough to Headgear
Headborough : Alt. of Headborrow
Headborrow : The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. ;; A petty constable.
Head-cheese : A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.
Headdress : A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. ;; A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
Headed : of Head ;; Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster. ;; Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
Header : One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading. ;; One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. ;; A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. ;; In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces. ;; A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. ;; A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header.
Headfirst : Alt. of Headforemost
Headfish : The sunfish (Mola).
Headforemost : With the head foremost.
Headgear : Headdress. ;; Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.
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