head.

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.

Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.

The company is looking for people with good heads for business.

He has no head for heights.

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. Mind; one's own thoughts.

This song keeps going through my head.

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. A headdress; a covering for the head.

a laced head

a head of hair

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. An individual person.

Admission is three dollars a head.

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.

200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. The population of game.

We have a heavy head of deer this year.

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. The antlers of a deer.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

What does it say at the head of the page?

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end of a table. The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.

During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end of a table. The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.

Hit the nail on the head!

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.

The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.

Tap the head of the drum for this roll.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.

The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.

He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end cap of a cask or other barrel.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The uppermost part of a valley.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. Synonym of tidal bore.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. Ellipsis of headline.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end of an abscess where pus collects.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The headstock of a guitar.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. A leading component. The top edge of a sail.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. A leading component. The bow of a vessel.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. A headland.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. A title or heading in a book or other document.

A leader or expert.

I'd like to speak to the head of the department.

Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.

A leader or expert. The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.

A leader or expert. A headteacher.

I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.

A leader or expert. A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

Only true heads know this.

A leader or expert. An old head.

A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.

The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.

A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.

Give me a head of lettuce.

A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.

A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. The leafy top part of a tree.

A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.

A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. The toilet of a ship.

I've got to go to the head.

A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

A significant or important part. A component. The principal melody or theme of a piece.

A significant or important part. A component. A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.

A significant or important part. A component. The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.

Headway; progress.

We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.

Topic; subject.

We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.

Denouement; crisis.

These issues are going to come to a head today.

Pressure and energy. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

Let the engine build up a good head of steam.

How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?

Pressure and energy. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.

Pressure and energy. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

She gave great head.

Danny got head last night.

The glans penis.

A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Power; armed force.

Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

To be in command of. (See also head up.)

Who heads the board of trustees?

to head an army, an expedition, or a riot

To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.

A group of clowns headed the procession.

The most important items headed the list.

To strike with the head

to head the ball

To move in a specified direction.

We are going to head up North for our holiday.

We will head off tomorrow.

To remove the head from (a fish).

The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

To form a head.

This kind of cabbage heads early.

To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.

to head a nail

To cut off the top of; to lop off.

to head trees

To behead; to decapitate.

To go in front of.

to head a drove of cattle

to head a person

To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.

The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.

To check or restrain.

To set on the head.

to head a cask

Foremost in rank or importance.

the head cook

Placed at the top or the front.

Coming from in front.

head sea

head wind