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 topmost, foremost, or leading part.
What does it say at the head of the page?
(social, metonymy) A leader or expert.
A significant or important part.
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 isses are going to come to a head today.
(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
She gave great head.
The glans penis.
A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
Power; armed force.
To be in command of. (See also head up.)
Who heads the board of trustees?
To come at the beginning of; to commence.
A group of clowns headed the procession.
To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
To move in a specified direction.
How does the ship head?
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 to; to fit or furnish 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 get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.
(by extension) To check or restrain.
To set on the head.
to head a cask
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.