A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.

A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.

The brainpan.

Head.

The front pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins.

The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order.

See Race, a water course.

See Headway, 2.

That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

a warning to be prepared for an imminent event.

Any sail set forward of the foremast.

A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial.

Authority or dignity; chief place.

An executioner who cuts off heads.

Fountain; source.

That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head.

A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock. The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc.

The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.

Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.

Obstinacy.

A headdress.

The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri.

The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.

a word that is qualified by a modifier.

Mental labor.

Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.

Health.

Capable of being healed.

A common herb of the Mint family (Brunella vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought to be a panacea.

A heddle.

One who, or that which, heals.

Tending or serving to heal; healing.

Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.

So as to heal or cure.

The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

In health; wholesomely.

The state of being healthful.

In a healthy manner.

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

Without health, whether of body or mind; infirm.

The state of being healthless.

Wholesome; salubrious.

In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.

The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.

To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.

One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

a large quantity. See heap, senses 2 and 3; as, he made heaps of money in the stock market.

Lying in heaps.

To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.

perceptible by the ear. Opposite of inaudible.

imp. p. p. of Hear.

One who hears; an auditor.

The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.

having a hearing impairment making hearing difficult; having a defective but functioning sense of hearing.

To hear by listening.

One who hearkens; a listener.

Rehearsal.

To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.

A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.

Suitable to a funeral.

To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

Preying on the heart.

Depriving of thought; ecstatic.

Having the shape of a heart; cordate; -- of a leaf shape.

A part of the breastbone.

causing gladness and pleasure; -- used mostly of the actions of people, and sometimes of animals; as, Is there a sight more heart-warming than a family reunion?.

Having the heart or affections free; not in love.

Wounded to the heart with love or grief.

Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling.

Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang.

the audible and palpable rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; as, he listened to her heartbeat with a stethoscope.

Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.

Causing overpowering sorrow.

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of other complaints.

Having heartburn.

Same as Heartburn.

Sincerely beloved.

Rooted in the heart.

Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character).

Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness.

To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.

One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up.

Hearty; sincere.

Heartache; sorrow.

The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

a rug spread out in front of a fireplace.

Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home.

From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity.

The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of a greeting.

wild ginger (Asarum shuttleworthii) having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves, growing from Western Virginia to Alabama.

Without a heart.

A little heart.

An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.

Same as Heartseed.

Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.

Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.

A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart.

Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.

Merry; cheerful; lively.

Shocked; dismayed.

To affect at heart; to shock.

A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart.

Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.

Rankling in, or swelling, the heart.

The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.

Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

Good for the heart.

Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.

characterized by great warmth and intensity of feeling; as, a heated argument. Opposite of dispassionate, passionless.

One who, or that which, heats.

A low shrub (Erica vulgaris or Calluna vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.

A large Northern European black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix formerly Tetrao tetrix) with a lyre-shaped tail; it is also called heath grouse, black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, and moor fowl. See heath grouse under heath, above.

Clad or crowned with heath.

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.

That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.

Heathendom.