ETYM Old Eng. hed, heved, heaved, as. heáfod.
1. The top of the body; the portion of the body containing the brain and showing the face.
2. The top of something.
3. An individual person.
4. The length or height based on the size of a human or animal head.
5. A rounded compact mass.
6. The striking part of a tool.
7. A part that projects out from the rest;.
8. The front of a military formation or procession.
9. A person who is in charge; SYN. chief, top dog.
10. (Linguistics) The word in a constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole; SYN. head word.
11. A single domestic animal.
12. (Usually plural) An obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person's head.
13. The tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates).
14. The pressure exerted by a fluid.
15. A toilet on board a boat of ship.
16. (Informal) A user of (usually soft) drugs.
17. The foam or froth that accumulates at the top when one pours an effervescent liquid into a container.
A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; SYN. head.
Vom übrigen Körper abgesetztes Vorderende vieler Tiere. Der K. enthält u. umfaßt gewöhnl. den Anfang des Darmkanals (Mundöffnung), häufig das Nervenzentrum (Gehirn) u. versch. Sinnesorgane. Insbes. spricht man von K. bei den Gliedertieren (v. a. Insekten) u. bei den Wirbeltieren. Bei letzteren wird der K. von einem knöchernen Gerüst (Schädel) gebildet.
ETYM Old Eng. mouth, muth, as. műth.
1. An opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge).
2. The opening of a jar or bottle.
3. A person conceived as a consumer of food.
4. The point where a stream issues into a larger body of water.