me AD: 
vee with a diadem 3 as, on oe contrary, we have. fome 
emperors heads entirely “ Lind ares tg are covered, 
are either covered with a diadem r a fimple 
afk, or a veil, or with fome other ears wit Bebedg ; whereof 
the diadem is the moft ancient, The fenate firft graujod it 
to Julius Cefar to wear - eta crown, which his fucef- 
or 
: on Ss by fome fetid frnbol thereof. 
Hea e s alfo ufed for the horns of a deer, as a hart, 
buck, 
“Hl mew, or caft their heads, every year, and get new 
onThe old hart or buck cafts his head fooner than the 
young ; and the time is about the month of February 
or March. Havi ft their heads, they inftantly with- 
draw into the thickets, hiding themfelves in convenient 
places near good water, &c. and far from the i ha os 
After they have mewed, _— begin to button again in 
o fhoot out new horns, which at 
taken out, it is faid, he will want 
and that, if one of the tefticles be only tied up, he will want 
the horn of the 9 fide. 
- The age of a hart 
number of heads. 
h 
r deer is ufually reckoned by the 
A one of the firft head, of the fecond 
At one year they _ nothing but bunches, called figni- 
ficators, = horns to co fecond year they appear 
more perfeGtly, but ftraight and fimple ; this makes the firft 
head, properly called broches, and im a fallow deer pricks. 
The third year they grow into two fpears, ox four, fix, 
= eight {mall batches At the fourth, they bear eight or 
At the fifth, ten or twelve. At the fixth, fourteen 
ps ay aly At the feventh year they bear their heads 
eamed, branched, and fummed, as much as they will 
ae never multiplying farther, but only growing in mag- 
nitude. 
' The names and diverfiticn of heads, 3 in the hunting lan- 
guage, are as follow 
art that pene the iiss. royals, -and tops, is 
“called the Jeam, and the little ftreaks therein are ghiters 
that which is about the cruft of the beam is termed pearls ; 
and that which is about the bur itfelf, formed like little 
dac ‘kid, becaufe the avocian are. wae in 
of a crown; ‘the fecond is c d top, beeaufe the the 
eroches are formed like a abc tel In ‘heads w vh 
bear not aN She or fox the — being pares a 
all of one are 
ds wie bear tw 
ches doublin ng, are called "prked 
- All beads iors have double burrs, or the antlers, 
s, and croches, turned downwards contrary to t ptbee 
heads, are called Semple heads. mn Hun Si a 
fo ufed . ew : 
Tn this feuife we to offer a reward for a man *s, heads. 
ed Seog gt price fet on a man’s head. 
parts next the e 
. well conneéted with the 
.. Capitation Renate p tax laid upon each head, called alfo 
poll and head-mon 
EAD, in ae M itary Art, Head of the camp is the 
front or foremoft part of the ground an army is encampe 
on, or that which advances mioft towards the field or enemy, 
The head of the camp is always to be the beft fortified. 
In the like fenfe we fay, a head i of the Ga the head 
of the fap, of the wo Pie De ee ing onts, or thofe 
enemy, and. f; athe from the. Peay of the 
See Trencu Ree ge 
The head of a horn-work i fb part contained between 
the flanked angles of the two ns battio 
Heap alfo Se an ornamental fig re ereCted on*the 
continuation of a fhip’s flem, as being expreffive of her 
name, and emblematic of war, n avigation » commerce, &c. 
Heap-ledges are the thw Rearchip pieces which frame the 
openings in the . 
Heap, in the Man nege. ‘The 56 a pn required to the 
head of a horfe are, that it be fmall, 
d 
place. 
the eyes. 
Bes = chief things in'a horfe’s head is a good onfét, fo 
. he may be able to bring his head into its natural fitua- 
on}; which is, that all the fore-part, from the brow to the 
wots, be perpendicular to the ground ; fo that if a plummet 
were applied thereto, it would but juit raze or thave it. See 
Horse. 
The head of a horfe is alfo ufed to pe the aétion of 
his neck, and the effe&t of the bridle a 
‘° give a horfe the head, fee Ricnigeee 
‘Heap in, and Iikewife the hips, is a phrafe i importing that 
muit palfage your horfe with his head and croupe in, i. e 
upoo "the ow he is to go over. 
D; ot gen is ae of a horfe witha black heed 
* is 
d, 
uently borne as a creft if ‘Chenift ry 28 
a cover or capital of an alembic, having along mere - con- 
or the vapours aifed by the fire into a veflel, which ferves 
ratory. In Mufcy the xanie - a lute, theorbo 
or ithe likey: is the place where the pins.or pegs are {crew cd, 
to ftretch or flacken the itrings. 
Pee » Dragon’s, in Affronomy, &c. is the attending node 
of the moon or other planet.. 
aoe one in Medicine. See Cepuacateia and Hewr 
CRANIA 
Heap, » that part of an animal by which 
the food is ig = ie ieee and which in all sopels 
quadrupeds fhould he {mali in proportion, well formed, 
neck and fhoulders. See pee 
and 1 Stock. 
p, a term not: unfrequently made ufe of by graziers 
to fgnify the fir bite of grafs, efpecially. w 
bullocks are 
when 
concerned, in which cafe Sher es S89 go 4 
