Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck hishead out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
“Anthea hasn't a notion in herhead but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivoryheads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
The end of a table.
The end of a rectangulartable furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at thehead of the table.
(billiards) The end of apool table opposite the end where the balls have beenracked.
The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story.[…] Thehead should give the same impression as the body of the story.
The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; thefront.
1708,Joseph Addison,The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, consider'd[2], page33:
We saw the last Campaign that an Army of Fourscore Thousand of the best Troops inEurope, with the Duke ofMarlborough at theHead of them, cou'd do nothing against an Enemy that were too numerous to be assaulted in their Camps, or attack'd in their Strong Holds.
“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.[…]”
At 4pm, the phonewent. It wasThe Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'
She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had beenpulled up for talking.
As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard andflipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to theHead and Deb wascarpeted.
I was called into thehead's office to discuss my behaviour.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on theheads long after they are ripe.
1712 October 18, anonymous letter inThe Spectator, edited byJoseph Addison, no. 513, collected inThe Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq, Birmingham:John Baskerville, published 1761, volume IV,page 10:
The indiſpoſition which has long hung upon me, is at laſt grown to ſuch anhead, that it muſt quickly make an end of me, or of itſelf.
Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronalheads.
1968, Fred Davis with Laura Munoz, “Heads and freaks: patterns and meanings of drug use among hippies”, inJournal of Health and Social Behavior, volume 9, number 2, pages156-64:
The term, "head," is, of course, not new with hippies. It has a long history among drug users generally, for whom it signified a regular, experienced user of any illegal drug—e.g., pot "head," meth "head," smack (heroin) "head."
2005, Martin Torgoff,Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 177,
The hutch now looks like a “Turkish bath,” and theheads have their arms around one another, passing the pipe and snapping their fingers as they sing Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears” into the night.
2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination ofHobson-Jobson”, inInternational Journal of Lexicography, volume31, number 4,→DOI, page491:
The citations are set in smaller font, start on a new indented line and areheaded with a date.
A group of clownsheaded the procession.
The most important itemsheaded the list.
(transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer,to head the ball
1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, inDeep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.:Alfred A. Knopf,→ISBN:
To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year.[…] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos neverheaded up.
(transitive) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those whoheaded, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.
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