head

1. 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.

2. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

   What does it say at the head of the page?

3. (social, metonymy) A leader or expert.
4. A significant or important part.
5. Headway; progress.

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

6. Topic; subject.

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

7. Denouement; crisis.

   These isses are going to come to a head today.

8. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
9. Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

   She gave great head.

10. The glans penis.
11. A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
12. Power; armed force.

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

   Who heads the board of trustees?

2. To come at the beginning of; to commence.

   A group of clowns headed the procession.

3. To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
4. To move in a specified direction.

   How does the ship head?

5. To remove the head from a fish.

   The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

6. To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
7. To form a head.

   This kind of cabbage heads early.

8. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.

   to head a nail

9. To cut off the top of; to lop off.

   to head trees

10. To behead; to decapitate.
11. To go in front of.

    to head a drove of cattle

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

    The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.

13. (by extension) To check or restrain.
14. To set on the head.

    to head a cask

adjective

Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

1. Foremost in rank or importance.

   the head cook

2. Placed at the top or the front.
3. Coming from in front.

   head sea