Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 16
Hazard (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. --Shak.
Hazard (v. t.) 冒險作出；嘗試；大膽提出；【書】使冒危險；冒……的危險 To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. -- John Clarke.
He hazards his neck to the halter. -- Fuller.
Hazard (v. t.) To venture to incur, or bring on.
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. -- Shak.
They hazard to cut their feet. -- Landor.
Syn: To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.
Hazard (n.) 危險；危害物；危險之源 [C] [（+to）]；機會；偶然的事 [U]；擲骰子遊戲 A game of chance played with dice. -- Chaucer.
Hazard (n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
I will stand the hazard of the die. -- Shak.
Hazard (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard. -- Rogers.
Hazard (n.) (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
Hazard (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." -- Shak.
Hazard (n.) (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
{Hazard table}, A table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes.
{To run the hazard}, To take the chance or risk.
{To hazard}, At risk; liable to suffer damage or loss.
Syn: Danger; risk; chance. See {Danger}.
Hazard (n.) A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn: {hazard}, {jeopardy}, {peril}, {risk}, {endangerment}].
Hazard (n.) An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn: {luck}, {fortune}, {chance}, {hazard}].
Hazard (n.) An obstacle on a golf course.
Hazard (v.) Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong" [syn: {guess}, {venture}, {pretend}, {hazard}].
Hazard (v.) Put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this" [syn: {venture}, {hazard}, {adventure}, {stake}, {jeopardize}].
Hazard (v.) Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" [syn: {gamble}, {chance}, {risk}, {hazard}, {take chances}, {adventure}, {run a risk}, {take a chance}].
Hazard, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 66
Housing Units (2000): 39
Land area (2000): 0.253208 sq. miles (0.655805 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.253208 sq. miles (0.655805 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21765
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.090144 N, 99.077041 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68844
Note:
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hazard, NE
Hazard
Hazard, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 4806
Housing Units (2000): 2291
Land area (2000): 7.019985 sq. miles (18.181678 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.019985 sq. miles (18.181678 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35362
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.255910 N, 83.193706 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hazard, KY
Hazard
Hazarded (imp. & p. p.) of Hazard.
Hazarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hazard.
Hazard (n.) [ C ] (C1) 危險物，危害物 Something that is dangerous and likely to cause damage.
// A health/ fire hazard.
// The busy traffic entrance was a hazard to pedestrians.
Hazard (v.) [ T ] 冒險（尤指猜測、建議等） To risk doing something, especially making a guess, suggestion, etc.
// I wouldn't like to hazard a guess.
Hazard (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 使遭受危險 To risk doing something that might cause harm to someone or something else.
// The policy hazarded the islands and put the lives of the inhabitants at risk.
Hazardable (a.) 不確定的；危險的；冒險的；大膽的 Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. -- Sir T. Browne.
Hazardable (a.) Such as can be hazarded or risked.
Hazarder (n.) 賭徒 A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hazarder (n.) One who hazards or ventures.
Hazardize (n.) (Obsolete) 危害 A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [Obs.]
Herself had run into that hazardize. -- Spenser.
Hazardous (a.) 有危險的；冒險的 Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
To enterprise so hazardous and high! -- Milton.
Syn: Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.
Hazardous (a.) Involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme" [syn: hazardous, risky, wild].
Hazardry (n.) 賭博 Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.]
-- Chaucer.
Hazardry (n.) 輕率；魯莽；冒失 Rashness;
temerity. [R.] -- Spenser.
Haze (v. i.) 變朦朧，變糊塗 To be hazy, or tick with haze. -- Ray.
Hazed (imp. & p. p.) of Haze.
Hazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haze.
Haze (v. t.) 使變朦朧，使變糊塗，使勞累 To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
Haze (v. t.) To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.
Haze (n.) Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. -- Tennyson.
Above the world's uncertain haze. -- Keble.
Haze (n.) A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze.
Haze (n.) Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.
Haze (n.) Confusion characterized by lack of clarity [syn: {daze}, {fog}, {haze}].
Haze (v.) Become hazy, dull, or cloudy.
Haze (v.) Harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions.
Haze (n.) An X Window System window manager designed to be light-weight and look like MacOS. Haze is based on mlvwm. It support virtual desktops, configurable menu bar and shaded windows. (2010-05-03)
Haze (n.) 霾，薄霧 [C] [U]；朦朧；模糊 [C ] Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. -- Tennyson.
Above the world's uncertain haze. -- Keble.
Haze (n.) A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze.
Haze, () An X Window System window manager designed to be light-weight and look like MacOS. Haze is based on mlvwm. It support virtual desktops, configurable menu bar and shaded windows.
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Hazel (n.) (Bot.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata. See Filbert. -- Gray.
Hazel (n.) A miner's name for freestone. -- Raymond.
Hazel earth, Soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
Hazel grouse (Zool.), A European grouse ({Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
Hazel hoe, A kind of grub hoe.
Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.
Hazel (a.) Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
I sit me down beside the hazel grove. -- Keble.
Hazel (a.) Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes." -- Shak.
Hazel (a.) Of a light brown or yellowish brown color.
Hazel (n.) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts [syn: hazel, hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala].
Hazel (n.) The fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris).
Hazel (n.) Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk [syn: hazelnut, hazel, hazelnut tree].
Hazel (n.) A shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes.
Hazeless (a.) Destitute of haze. -- Tyndall.
Hazelly (a.) Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. -- Mortimer.
Hazelnut (n.) The nut of the hazel. -- Shak.
Hazelnut (n.) Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk [syn: hazelnut, hazel, hazelnut tree].
Hazelnut (n.) Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus [syn: hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, cob].
Hazelwort (n.) (Bot.) The asarabacca.
Compare: Asarabacca
Asarabacca (n.) (Bot.) An acrid herbaceous plant ({Asarum Europ[ae]um), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.
Asarabacca (n.) Thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe [syn: asarabacca, Asarum europaeum].
Hazily (adv.) In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.
Hazily (adv.) Through a haze; "we saw the distant hills hazily."
Hazily (adv.) In an indistinct way; "he remembered her only hazily."
Haziness (n.) The quality or state of being hazy.
Haziness (n.) Vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined.
Haziness (n.) Cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor [syn: haziness, mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness].
Hazle (v. t.) To make dry; to dry. [Obs.]
Hazy (n.) Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent. "A tender, hazy brightness." -- Wordsworth.
Hazy (n.) Obscure;
confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect. -- Mrs.
Gore.
Hazy (a.) Filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning" [syn: brumous, foggy, hazy, misty].
Hazy (a.) Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy].
He (pron.) The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.
Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. -- Gen. iii. 16.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve. -- Deut. x. 20.
He (pron.) Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. -- Prov. xiii. 20.
He (pron.) Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively. -- Chaucer.
I stand to answer thee, Or any he, the proudest of thy sort. -- Shak.
Note: When a collective noun or a class is referred to, he is of common gender. In early English, he referred to a feminine or neuter noun, or to one in the plural, as well as to noun in the masculine singular. In composition, he denotes a male animal; as, a he-goat.
He (Chem.) The chemical symbol for helium.
He (n.) A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas) [syn: helium, He, atomic number 2].
He (n.) The 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
HE, () HoehenEinheit [1HE = 19"]
-head (suffix.) A variant of -hood.
Head (n.) 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.
Head (n.) 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.
Head (n.) 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.
Head (n.) 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.
Head (n.) 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 of Marlborough at the head of them. -- Addison.
Head (n.) 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.
Head (n.) 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.
Head (n.) 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.
Head (n.) A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. -- Shak.
Head (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
Head (n.) 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.
Head (n.) Power; armed force.
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. -- Shak.
Head (n.) A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. -- Swift.
Head (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
Head (n.) (Bot.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
Head (n.) (Bot.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
Head (n.) The antlers of a deer.
Head (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. -- Mortimer.
Head (n.) pl. 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; the pronephros.
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.
Head and shoulders. (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.
Heads or tails or Head or tail, This side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, question, 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.
Off the top of my head, From quick recollection, or as an approximation; without research or calculation; -- a phrase used when giving quick and approximate answers to questions, to indicate that a response is not necessarily accurate.
Out of one's own head, According to one's own idea; without advice or co["o]peration of another.
Over the head of, Beyond the comprehension of. -- M. Arnold.
To go over the head of (a person), To appeal to a person superior to (a person) in line of command.
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.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
Headed (imp. & p. p.) of Head.
Heading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Head.
Head (v. t.) 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.
Head (v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. -- Spenser.
Head (v. t.) To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Head (v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
Head (v. t.) 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.
Head (v. t.) 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. "We'll head them off at the pass."
To head up, (a) to close, as a cask or
barrel, by fitting a head to.
To head up, (b) To serve as the leader of; as, to head up a team of investigators.
Head (v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge. -- Adair.
Head (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
Head
(v. i.) To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage
heads early.
Head (n.) The upper part of the human body or the front part of
the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his
head out the window" [syn: head, caput].
Head (n.) A single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle."
Head (n.) That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head" [syn: mind, head, brain, psyche, nous].
Head (n.) A person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation" [syn: head, chief, top dog].
Head (n.) The front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack" [ant: rear].
Head (n.) The pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam."
Head (n.) The top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list" [ant: foot].
Head (n.) The source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" [syn: fountainhead, headspring, head].
Head (n.) (Grammar) The word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent [syn: head, head word].
Head (n.) The tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates).
Head (n.) The length or height based on the size of a human or animal head; "he is two heads taller than his little sister"; "his horse won by a head."
Head (n.) A dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" [syn: capitulum, head].
Head (n.) The educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal" [syn: principal, school principal, head teacher, head].
Head (n.) An individual person; "tickets are $5 per head."
Head (n.) A user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of secret heads."
Head (n.) A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland].
Head (n.) A rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet."
Head (n.) The foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container; "the beer had a large head of foam."
Head (n.) The part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" [syn: forefront, head].
Head (n.) A difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday" [syn: pass, head, straits].
Head (n.) Forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale" [syn: headway, head].
Head (n.) A V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north" [syn: point, head].
Head (n.) The subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets" [syn: question, head].
Head (n.) 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" [syn: heading, header, head].
Head (n.) The rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus."
Head (n.) That part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves.
Head (n.) (Computer science) A tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk [syn: read/ write head, head].
Head (n.) (Usually plural) The obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!" [ant: tail].
Head (n.) The striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer."
Head (n.) (Nautical) A toilet on board a boat or ship.
Head (n.) A projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin."
Head (n.) A membrane that is stretched taut over a drum [syn: drumhead, head].
Head (n.) Oral stimulation of the genitals; "they say he gives good head" [syn: oral sex, head].
Head (v.) To go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains."
Head (v.) Be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" [syn: head, lead].
Head (v.) Travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John" [syn: lead, head].
Head (v.) Be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This student heads the class" [syn: head, head up].
Head (v.) Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise].
Head (v.) Take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas."
Head (v.) Be in the front of
or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president."
Head (v.) Form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat
headed early
this year."
Head (v.) Remove the head of; "head the fish."
Headache (n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia. "Headaches and shivering fits." -- Macaulay.
Headache (n.) Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" [syn: concern, worry, headache, vexation].
Headache (n.) Pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs [syn: headache, head ache, cephalalgia].
Headachy (a.) Afflicted with headache. [Colloq.]
Headband (n.) A fillet; a band for the head. "The headbands and the tablets." -- Is. iii. 20.
Headband (n.) The band at each end of the back of a book.
Headband (n.) A band worn around or over the head; "the earphones were held in place by a headband."
Headboard (n.) A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave. Headborough
Headborough (n.) Alt. of Headborrow.
Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] -- Blackstone.
Headborrow (n.) (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]
Head-cheese (n.) 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 (n.) A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire ; as, chiefs among the plains Indians had elaborate long headdresses with many feathers.
Among
birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little
plume. -- Addison.
Headdress (n.) A
manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil,
ribbons, combs, etc.
Headed (a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.
Headed (a.) Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
Headed (a.) Having a heading or course in a certain direction; "westward headed wagons."
Headed (a.) Having a heading or caption; "a headed column"; "headed notepaper" [ant: unheaded].
Headed (a.) Having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination; "headed bolts"; "three-headed Cerberus"; "a cool-headed fighter pilot" [ant: headless].
Headed (a.) Of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head; "headed Cabbages."
Header (n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
Header (n.) One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [R.]
Header (n.) (Arch.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
Header (n.) (Arch.) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
Header (n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
Header (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.] Headfirst
Header (n.) 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" [syn: heading, header, head].
Header (n.) Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window [syn: header, lintel].
Header (n.) Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall [syn: header, coping, cope].
Header (n.) A framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters.
Header (n.) A machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon.
Header (n.) (Soccer) The act of hitting the ball with your head.
Header (n.) A headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery."
Header, () The portion of a packet, preceding the actual data, containing source and destination addresses, error checking and other fields.
Header, () The part of an electronic mail message or news article that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and time the message was sent.
Headfirst (adv.) Alt. of Headforemost.
Headforemost (adv.) With the head foremost. -- of motion.
Headfirst (adv.) With the head foremost; "the runner slid headlong into third base" [syn: headlong, headfirst].
Headfirst (a.) With the head foremost; "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool" [syn: headfirst, headlong].
Headfish (n.) (Zool.) The sunfish ({Mola). Head gear
Headfish (n.) Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters [syn: ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish].
Head gear (n.) Alt. of Headgear.
Headgear (n.) Headdress.
Headgear (n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.
Headgear (n.) Clothing for the head [syn: headdress, headgear].
Headgear (n.) The hoist at the pithead of a mine.
Headgear (n.) Stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head.
Head-hunter (n.) A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters.
Head-hunter (n.) A person whose profession is to find executives to fill open positions in corporations; an executive personnel recruiter; also, a company that performs a similar service. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.
Headily (adv.) In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.
Headiness (n.) The quality of being heady.