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
(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.
Head
(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
(Head), v. i.
1. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
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.
