From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Head \Head\ (h[e^]d), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Headed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heading}.]
1. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot. --Dryden.
2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. --Spenser.
3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] --Shak.
4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
5. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
{To head off}, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer heads off a thief who is escaping. ''We'll head them off at the pass.''
{To head up}, (a) to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to. (b) To serve as the leader of; as, to head up a team of investigators. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.
2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
4. (Mining, tunneling) (a) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; the vein above a drift. (b) The end of a drift or gallery; also, the working face at the end of a tunnel, gallery, drift, or adit from which the work is advanced. [1913 Webster +RH]
5. (Sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
6. (Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward. --Knight.
{Heading course} (Arch.), a course consisting only of headers. See {Header}, noun 3 (a) .
{Heading joint}. (a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at right angles to the grain of the wood. (b) (Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same course.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" [syn: {header}, {head}]
2: the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies [syn: {bearing}, {aim}]
3: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: {drift}, {gallery}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
187 Moby Thesaurus words for "heading": aim, antecedent, anteposition, anteriority, azimuth, banner, banner head, basis, bearing, bent, blood, bold front, bracket, branch, brave face, brave front, burden, cap, capping, capsheaf, caption, caput, case, caste, category, chapter, chief, clan, class, compass direction, concern, consummating, course, crest, crown, crowning, culminating, current, direction, direction line, display, division, drift, drop head, dropline, epigraph, essence, estate, facade, face, facet, facia, first, focus of attention, focus of interest, fore, forefront, foregoing, foreground, forehand, foreland, foremost, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, gist, grade, group, grouping, hanger, head, headline, headmost, headpiece, helmsmanship, inclination, issue, jump head, kin, label, lap, lay, le pas, leading, legend, level, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, living issue, main point, matter, matter in hand, meat, motif, motive, motto, navigation, obverse, order, orientation, outtopping, overline, overtopping, pigeonhole, piloting, pinhead, point, point at issue, point in question, position, precedence, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursor, precursory, predicament, preface, prefix, prior, priority, problem, proscenium, quarter, question, race, range, rank, rating, rubric, run, running head, running title, scarehead, screamer, section, sept, set, spread, spreadhead, station, status, steerage, steering, strain, stratum, streamer, subdivision, subgroup, subhead, subheading, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, suborder, substance, subtitle, superscription, tendency, tenor, text, the lead, theme, title, title page, topic, topknot, topping, track, trend, van, vector, way, window dressing
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