Headrigg(Cuddie), a ploughman in lady Bellenden’s service. (Cuddie= Cuthbert.)—Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality (time, Charles II.).
Headstone (Bradley), a schoolmaster, of very determinate character and violent passion. He loves Lizzie Hexham with an irresistible mad love, and tries to kill Eugene Wrayburn out of jealousy. Grappling with Rogue Riderhood on Plashwood Bridge, Riderhood fell backwards into the smooth pit, and Headstone over him, Both of them perished in the grasp of a death-struggle. —Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (1864).