headily 
headily (hed'i-li), ade. [< ME. Iiedi/liche; < 
lii-ady + -ty 2 .] lu a heady or rash manner; 
hastily; rashly. 
Antor hasted hym to kynge Carados, and met hjin so 
hedylyfhe with a grete spere that bothe the tyiubir and 
Btelen heede shewed thourgh his shuldre. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 119. 
Had they not been headily carried on by passion and 
prejudice, they would never have passed this rash sen- 
tence. Tillotson, xii. 135. (Latham.) 
headiness (hed'i-nes), n. The condition or 
quality of being heady, in any sense of that 
word. 
As for their headiness, see whether they be not prone, 
bold, and run headlong into all mischief. 
Tyndale, Aus. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850X 
[p. 106. 
heading (hed'ing), . [Verbal n. of head, v."] 
1 . The act or process of providing with a head : 
as, the heading of a pin or of a barrel. 2. That 
which stands at the nead ; especially, a title ; a 
caption: as, the heading of a paper. 3. Mate- 
rial to form a head, as timber for forming the 
heads of casks. 4. The foam on liquor. 5. A 
preparation of equal parts of alum and green 
vitriol, used in brewing. 6. In dressmaking: 
(a) The upper edge of a flounce or ruffle which 
projects above the line stitched on the dress, 
etc. (6) Any narrow braid or trimming placed 
at the head of a flounce, ruffle, fringe, or other 
trimming. 7. In lace-making, the edge of the 
lace on the side sewed to the dress, whether as 
a part of the design or in the form of a sepa- 
rate braid. 8. In fireworks, the particular de- 
vice of a rocket, especially when used as a sig- 
nal: as, a star-heading. 9. A driftway or pas- 
sage excavated in the line of an intended tun- 
nel, forming a gullet in which the men work. 
10. In coal-mining : (a) In England, often used 
as synonymous with liead. (b) In Pennsylva- 
nia, a cross-heading, a continuous passage for 
air, or for use as a manway; the place where 
work is being done in driving any horizontal 
passage. Penn. Geol. Surv. Gloss. 11. pi. In 
placer-mining, the mass of gravel above the 
head of the sluice. 12. In brickwork, a row 
or course of headers; a heading-course. 13. 
The molding above a door or a window; a 
head-mold. 14. Homespun cloth. C. Sallock. 
[Southern IT. S.] 15. See the extract. 
Tan-liquor is then run into the vat, and when the inter- 
stices are filled, the whole is crowned with a layer of bark, 
which tanners call a heading. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 36. 
heading-chisel (hed'ing-chiz"el), n. A chisel 
for cutting down the head of a mortise. E. H. 
Knight. 
heading-circler (hed'ing-sfer"kler), n. A ma- 
chine for cutting and dressing the pieces used 
to form the head of a cask. The stuff is 
clamped between two disks, shaped by a saw, 
and finally dressed by revolving cutters. 
heading-course (hed'ing-kors), n. In masonry, 
a course which consists entirely of headers, or 
of stones or bricks laid lengthwise across the 
thickness of the wall. See English bond, under 
bond 1 . 
heading-Milt, . A place of execution by be- 
heading. 
Huntly's gallant stalwart son 
Wis heidit on thi keidin hill. 
Battle of Corichie (Child's Ballads, VII. 214). 
They brought him to the heading-kill, 
His horse, hot and his saddle. 
Young Waters (Child's Ballads, III. 804). 
heading-joint (hed'ing-joint), . 1. In arch., 
a joint between two or more boards made at 
right angles to the fibers. 2. In masonry, a 
joint between two voussoirs in the same course. 
E. H. Knight. 
heading-knife (hed'ing-nif), n. A knife used 
for heading, (a) A knife used by coopers in making the 
chamfer on the head of a cask. (!>) A saddlers' knife used 
for making holes too large to be made by a punch, (c) A 
curriers' scraping-knife, (d) A fishermen's knife for cut- 
ting oil the heads of fish. 
heading-machine (hed'ing-ma-shen / '), n. 1. In 
agri., a form of harvester by which the heads 
are torn off from the standing grain. See reap- 
ing-machine. 2. An apparatus for swaging up 
the heads of bolts or pins. 3. A kind of lathe 
for forming and trimming the heads of casks. 
4. A press in which the heads of cartridges 
are shaped. 5. A machine for making the 
heads of pins. 
heading-tool (hed'ing-tol), n. A hand-clamp 
for holding the rod of metal used in forming 
the heads of bolts, rivets, nails, etc. 
headish (hed'ish), . [< head + -ish 1 .] Head- 
strong; testy; flighty. [Prov. Eng.] 
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head-kerchief (hed'ker'chif), n. A kerchief 
worn on the head, usually as a turban. 
Those who had ante-emancipation costumes of flowered 
mousseline-de-laine gowns, black-silk aprons, and real 
bandanna head-kerchiefs, put them on for volunteer ser- 
vice in the dressing-room. New Princeton Ren., IV. 3B3. 
head-kidney (hed'kid"'ni), n. The anterior 
one of three parts of the segmental organ or 
rudimentary kidney of a vertebrate embryo, 
situated in the region of the heart, and tech- 
nically called the pronephros. 
Termed the head-kidney or pronephros ; and its duct is 
the Mullerian duct. H. Gray, Anat. (ed. 1887), p. 133. 
head-knee (hed'ne), . Naut., a piece of mold- 
ed knee-timber situated beneath the head-rails, 
and fayed edgewise to the cutwater and stem, 
for steadying the cutwater. 
head-knot (hed'not), n. A knot of ribbon or 
some similar thing worn as part of a head-dress. 
headland (hed'land), n. [In def. 1, also E. 
dial, headlands, ddlands; < ME. hevedlond, < AS. 
*hedfodland (once spelled hafudland, glossed 
L. limites), a boundary, headland (= G. haupt- 
land, the mainland, the mother country), < 
hedfod head, + land, land. For the sense 
' cape ; ' cf . head, 6 (m), and cape 1 .'] 1. A ridge 
or strip of unplowed land at the ends of fur- 
rows or near a fence. 
Now down with the grass upon headlands about. 
Tuner, Five Hundred Points. 
Access was given ... by the headland, at right angles 
to the strips, on which there was a right to turn the 
ploughs ; the owner of the headland must, therefore, wait 
to till his land till all the strips are ploughed. 
Nineteenth Century, XIX. 904. 
2. A cape ; a promontory ; a point of land pro- 
jecting from the shore into the sea or other ex- 
pause of water. 
Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers 1 
Flames, on the windy headland flare ! 
Tennyson, Welcome to Alexandra. 
The bracing air of the headland gives a terrible appe- 
tite to those of us who, like me, have been sea-sick and 
fasting for forty-eight hours. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 20. 
headle (hed'l), n. See heddle. 
headledge (hed'lej), n. Naut., a thwartship 
piece used in framing the hatchways or ladder- 
ways. See cut under hatchway. 
headless (hed'les), a. [< ME. heedless, hevedles, 
< AS. hedfodleas (= D. hoofdeloos = G. hauptlos 
= Dan. hovedlos=Sw. hufvudlos),<.hedfod, head, 
+ -leas, -less.] 1. Having no head; acepha- 
lous; acranial: as. the headless mollusks; head- 
less vertebrates. 
Ichabod was horror-stricken at perceiving that he [the 
horseman] was headless! but his horror was still more 
increased on observing that the head, which should have 
rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the 
pommel of the saddle. Irving, Sleepy Hollow. 
2. Destitute of a chief or leader. 
They . . . made the empire stand headiest!. Raleigh. 
3f. Destitute of understanding or prudence; 
foolish. 
It may more justly be numbered among those headless 
old-wives' tales which Plutarch so justly derideth. 
Fotherby, Atheomastix, p. 62. 
headlesshoodt, . A variant of heedlesshood. 
headlight (hed'llt), n. 1. A large lamp or lan- 
tern and reflector carried on the front of a lo- 
comotive and serving to illuminate the track 
by night. On locomotives of European make two head- 
lights are carried, one over each rail of the track, and they 
are set much lower than the headlight of an American 
locomotive. 
2. A white light carried at a steamer's mast- 
head when under way. [Rare.] . 
head-line (hed'lin), . 1. A line or rope at- 
tached to the head of an animal, as a bullock. 
2. In printing, the line at the top of the page, 
which contains the folio or number of the page, 
with the title of the book (technically known as 
the running head), or the subject of the chapter 
or of the page. 
headlingt, headlings (hed'ling, -lingz), adv. 
[< ME. hedling, heedling, hevedlynge, and with 
adv. gen. -s, -es, hedlings, hedlynges (= MHG. 
houbetlingen); < head + -HngV,] Same as head- 
long. 
Al the droue wente hedlynge in to the sea. 
Wycl(f, Mat. viii. 32 (Oxf.). 
The foolish multitude everywhere . . . as a raging flood 
(the banks broken down) runneth headlines into all blas- 
phemy and devilishness. Bp. Bale, Select Works, p. 508. 
head-lining (hed'15"mng), n. A painted can- 
vas sometimes used to form the ceiling of pas- 
senger-cars. 
headlong (hed'16ng), adv. [< ME. Jiedlonge ; 
var. of headling, q. v.j 1. With the head fore- 
most : as, to fall headlong. 
head-mold 
[She] hit hym so hcturly with a hert wille, 
That he hurlit down hedlongeitto the hard erthe. 
Destruction uf Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 10980. 
He flung her headlong into the mote. 
Northern Lord and Cruel Jew (Child's Ballads, VIII. 281). 
2. Kashly; precipitately; without deliberation. 
Some ask for envy'd pow'r, which public hate 
Pursues, and hurries headlong to their fate. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal s Satires, x. 86. 
3. Hastily; without delay or respite ; tumultu- 
ously. 
We are carried away headlong with the torrent of our 
affections. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 596. 
The rapid charge, the rallying shout, 
Retreat borne headlong into rout. 
Scott, L. of the L., ii. 17. 
headlong (hed'long), a. [< headlong, adv.] 1. 
Steep; precipitous. 
Like a tower upon a headlong rock. 
Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 41. 
To take the bit between his teeth, and fly 
To the next headlong steep of anarchy. 
Dryden, The Medal, 1. 122. 
2. Rash; precipitate: as, headlong folly. 
The headlong course that madd'ning heroes run, 
How soon triumphant, and how soon undone ! 
Crabbe, Works, I. 158. 
3. Rushing precipitately ; precipitate ; hasty. 
The descent of Somerset had been a gradual and almost 
imperceptible lapse. It now became a headlong fall. 
Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 
The young men think nothing of a headlong journey 
from Bath to London and back again. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Sheridan, p. 26. 
headlongt, v. t. [< headlong, adv.] To precipi- 
tate. Davies. 
We . . . forget the course of our own sinful ignorance 
that headlongs us to confusion. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, III. 93. 
headlonglyt (hed'16ng-li), adv. In a headlong 
manner; precipitately. 
So snatchingly or headlongly driven, flew Juno. 
Chapman, Iliad, xv., Commentary. 
headlongwiset (hed'long- wiz), adv. In a head- 
long manner. 
Now they began much more to take stomacke and indig- 
nation, in case that after Tarquinius the kingdome should 
not returne to them and their line, but should still run 
on end, and headlong-wise fall unto such base varlets. 
Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 29. 
head-louse (hed'lous), n. The common louse, 
Pediculus capitis, which infests the hair of the 
human head. Compare body-louse, crab-louse. 
head-luggedt (hed'lugd), a. Lugged or drag- 
ged by the head. 
A father, and a gracious aged man. 
Whose reverence even the head-lvgg'd bear would lick 
Most barbarous, most degenerate ! Shak., Lear, iv. 2. 
headlyt (hed'li), a. [< ME. hedly, havedlich, < 
AS. hedfwdlic, capital, < hedfod, head : see head.'] 
1. Principal; capital. 
This weddyng is broken by iche hedly synne. 
Wyclif, Select Works, III. 162. 
2. [In this sense foxind only in Shakspere, in 
the following passage in the folio of 1623, where 
it is prob. a misprint for heady, as in all other 
editions.] Same as heady, 3. 
Eeadly murther, spoil, and villainy. Shalt., Hen. V., iii. 3. 
head-man (hed'man'), n. [< early ME. hefd- 
inan, hevedmon, < AS. hedfodman, a chief, leader 
(= MHG. houbetman, houptman, G. hauptmann 
(> ult. hetnian and ataman, q. v.) = Dan. hovcds- 
mand= Sw. hofv its-man, captain), < hedfod, head, 
+ man, man. Cf . headsman.] A chief; a leader. 
[Now usually written as two words.] 
head-mark (hed'mark), n. The natural char- 
acteristics of each individual of a species. 
Head-mark, or, in other words, that characteristic in- 
dividuality stamped by the hand of Nature upon every 
individual of her numerous progeny. 
Agric. Surv., Peebles. (Jamieson.) 
Galloway and Buchan, Lothian and Lochaber, are like 
foreign parts ; yet you may choose a man from any of 
them, and, ten to one, he shall prove to have the head- 
mark of a Scot. R. L. Stevenson, The Foreigner at Home. 
head-master (hed'mas'ter), M. The principal 
master of a school or seminary. 
Mr. Thring claims that three hundred boys is the limit 
of numbers that a head-master can know personally. 
The Century, XXXVI. 653. 
head-mold (hed'mold), . 1. The skull proper, 
or cranium; the brain-pan. 2. In arch., a 
molding carried around or over the head of a 
door or a window ; a hood-mold or hood-mold- 
ing. Head-mold Shott, a morbid condition of a new- 
born child in which the sutures of the skull, usually the 
coronal suture, have their edges shot over one another. 
In the old London Bills of Mortality the term head- 
mould shot long stood as the vernacular for a form of hy- 
drocephalus, or water on the brain. 
jV. and Q., Cth ser., IX. 18. 
