1. Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, — to be violent on one side or the other.
Sir W. Temple. 2. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
The liquor is too heady.
Dryden. 3. Violent; impetuous. "A heady currance." Shak.
Heal
(Heal), v. t. [See Hele.] To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. [Obs.]
Heal
(Heal), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Healed (held); p. pr. & vb. n. Healing.] [OE. helen, hælen, AS. h&aemacrlan,
fr. hal hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. helian, D. heelen, G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole.]
1. To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness
or health.
Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
Matt. viii. 8. 2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; — said of a disease or a wound.
I will heal their backsliding.
Hos. xiv. 4. 3. To restore to original purity or integrity.
Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters.
2 Kings ii. 21. 4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
Heal
(Heal) v. i. To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; —
sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.
Shak. Heal
(Heal), n. [AS. h&aemacrlu, h&aemacrl. See Heal, v. t.] Health. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Healable
(Heal"a*ble) a. Capable of being healed.
Healall
(Heal"all`) n. (Bot.) A common herb of the Mint family destitute of active properties, but anciently
thought a panacea.
Heald
(Heald) n. [CF. Heddle.] A heddle. Ure.
Healer
(Heal"er) n. One who, or that which, heals.
Healful
(Heal"ful) a. Tending or serving to heal; healing. [Obs.] Ecclus. xv. 3.
Healing
(Heal"ing), a. Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing
words.
Here healing dews and balms abound.
Keble. Healingly
(Heal"ing*ly), adv. So as to heal or cure.
Health
(Health) n. [OE. helthe, AS. h&aemacrlþ, fr. hal hale, sound, whole. See Whole.]
