head-molding 
head-molding (hed'mol'ding), n. Sameasfcead- 
mold, 2. 
head-money (lied'mun-'i), >i. 1. A capitation- 
tax; a tax of so much per head. 
To be taxed by the poll, to be sconced our head-money. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
2. A reward by the head or number for per- 
sons captured in war, especially at sea ; also, 
a reward for the production of the head of an 
outlaw or enemy. 
The laws of some states hold out special rewards to en- 
courage the capture of vessels, especially of commissioned 
vessels, of their enemies. Such is the head-money of five 
pounds, due under a section of the British prize act, to 
all on board an armed vessel acting under public author- 
ity, for every man on board of a similar captured vessel 
who was living at the beginning of the engagement. 
Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 144. 
Head-money cases, three cases decided by the United 
States Supreme Court in 1884 (112 U. 8., 580), which held 
that an act of Congress (August 3d, 1882) imposing upon 
owners of vessels a duty for immigrants entering the 
United States was valid. 
headmost (bed 'most), a. sttperl. [< head + 
-most.'] Most advanced; most forward; first 
in a line or order of progression : as, the head- 
most ship in a fleet. 
One steam torpedo-boat . . . managed to run the gaunt- 
let of the guard-boats, and came through them bravely at 
the headmost Turkish ship. If. A. He.*., CXXVII. 884. 
head-netting (hed'net'ing), n. An ornamental 
netting used in merchant ships instead of the 
fayed planking of the head-rails. 
head-note (hed'not), n. A note or remark 
placed at the head, as of a chapter or page; 
specifically, a brief and condensed statement 
introductory to a report of a legal decision, 
stating the principles of law to be deduced 
from the decision to which it is prefixed, or 
the facts and circumstances which bring the 
case in hand within the principle or rule of 
law or of practice which the court applied; a 
syllabus. 
head-pant (hed'pan), n. [ME. not found, < AS. 
hedfodpanne (= D. hoofdpan = ODan. hoved- 
pande), the skull, < hedfod, head, + panne, a 
pan.] The brain-pan. 
head-penny (hed'pen*'i), . [ME. luefed-pen- 
ing.~\ A poll-tax: usually in the plural, head- 
pence. Also called head-silver. 
head-piece (hed'pes), n. [Formerly also head- 
peece, headpeace; < head + piece.'} 1. A hel- 
met; specifically, an open helmet such as was 
worn after the abandonment of the armet; 
also, a hat; head-gear. See morion, cabasset, 
burganet. 
One dark little man stood, sat, walked, lectured, under 
the head-piece of a bandit bonnet-grec. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xxxv. 
2. The head; especially, the head as the seat 
of the understanding ; hence, intelligence ; judg- 
ment. [Colloq.] 
A Biggen he had got about his brayne, 
For in his headpeace he felt a sore payne. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. 
Pride comfort your poor head-piece, lady ! 'tis a weak 
one, and had need of a night-cap. 
Beau, and Fl., Philaster, 1. 1. 
3. A decorative engraving placed at the top of 
the first page of a book, or at the beginning of 
a chapter, etc. ; a head-band. 
head-plate (hed'plat), n. 1. A metal strip or 
guard covering the joint of the top of a landau. 
2. A reinforcing piece on the cantle of a 
saddletree. 3. In entom., a horny plate on the 
cephalic extremity of the larvaj of certain in- 
sects. 
Many larvse are destitute of eyes namely, all maggots 
with an undeveloped head, as well as many larva- with a 
distinct corneous head-plate. Shuckard. 
4. In gun., a plate which covers the breast of 
the cheeks of a gun-carriage. 
head-post (hed'post), n. 1. One of the posts 
at the head of a four-post bedstead. 2. In the 
stall-partition of a stable, the post nearest the 
manger. 
head-pump (hed'pump), n. Naut., a small 
pump placed at the bow of a vessel, with the 
lower end communicating with the sea, used 
chiefly for washing decks. 
headquarters (hed'kwar'terz), n. pi. 1. The 
quarters or place of residence, permanent or 
temporary, of the commander-in-chief of an 
army. 2. The residence of any military chief, 
or the place from which his orders are issued. 
Hence 3. The place where one chiefly resides 
or carries on business. 
headrace (hed'ras), . 1. The race or flume 
which leads water to a water-wheel. 2. See 
the extract. 
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The channel of supply, or head race, whereby water is 
brought to the engine. llaitkine, Steam Boiler, 95. 
head-rail 1 (hed'ral), n. [< head + wi/'.] 1. 
In ship-building, one of the elliptical rails at the 
head of a ship. 2. The upper horizontal mem- 
ber of a door-frame. 
head-rail-t (hed'ral), . [< head + rail*."} A 
kerchief or other garment of linen for the head, 
worn especially by women. 
head-reach (hed'rech), t>. t. Naut., to shoot 
ahead, as a sailing vessel during the evolution 
of tacking. 
head-rest (hed'rest), . A rest or support of 
any kind for the head; specifically, inphotog., 
an adjustable apparatus, generally a metallic 
skeleton frame, placed behind the sitter to 
steady and support his head during the taking 
of his portrait. 
head-ring (hed'ring), n. A decoration worn by 
the men of the Kafirs after marriage, consisting 
of a leaflet of palm secured permanently to the 
woolly hair, and covered with vegetable wax or 
other material used for dressing the hair. 
head-rope (hed'rop), . [< ME. hederap."] If. 
Naut., a rope to support the head of a mast. 
Thane was hede-rapys hewene [cut] that helde upe the 
mantes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), I. 36S9. 
2. That part of a bolt-rope which terminates 
any sail on its upper edge, and to which the sail 
is sewed. 
head-sails (hed'salz), . pi. Naut., sails set 
forward of the foremast, 
headshake (hed'shak), . A significant shake 
of the head. 
That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, 
With arms encumber'd thus, or thus head shake, . . . note 
That you know aught of me. Shak., Hamlet, t 5. 
head-sheets (hed'shets), n.pl. Naut.,the sheets 
of the head-sails; the jib-sheets. 
head-shield (hed'sheld), n. In herpet., a cephal- 
ic plate ; one of the usually definite and sym- 
metrical plates on the top of the head of a snake 
or lizard. 
headship (hed'ship), n. [< head + -ship."] The 
state or position of being a head or chief; head 
or chief place ; hence, authority ; rule ; govern- 
ment. 
As an estate of the realm the spiritualty recognises the 
headship of the king, as a member of the Church Catholic 
it recognises, according to the medieval idea, the headship 
of the pope. Stubbs, Const. Hist., 376. 
There seems no reason to doubt that Rome, in the days 
of her kings, had won a federal headship over all Latinm, 
and that she lost that headship through her change from 
kings to consuls. E. A. Freeman, Auier. Lects., p. 316. 
Federal headship. See federal. 
head-sill (hed'sil), w. In a saw-pit, one of the 
transverse pieces at each end, on which the 
ends of the timber rest. 
head-silver (hed'sil'ver), . Same as head- 
penny. 
head-skin (hed'skin), . A thick, tough, elas- 
tic substance, proof against the harpoon, pro- 
tecting the case of the sperm-whale. C. M. 
Scammon. 
headsman (hedz'man), .; pi. headsmen (-men). 
[< ME. heddysman (def. 1) ; < head's, poss. of 
head, + man."] 1. A chief person; a head man. 
The! . . . Hyngede of thelre heddys-mene by hundrethes 
at ones. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 281. 
2. One who cuts off the heads of condemned 
persons ; a public executioner. 
Come, heaflsinan, off with his head. 
Shak., All's Well, iv. 3. 
3. A laborer in a colliery who conveys the 
coal from the workings to the horseway. 
head-spade (hed'spad), n. A long-handled in- 
strument with iron shank and cast-steel blade, 
belonging to the cutting-gear used by whalers 
in cutting in a whale. It Is heavier than the cutting- 
spade, and is employed in cutting the bone which con- 
nects the whale's head to the body. Also called head- 
cracker. 
headspring (hed'spring), . Origin; source; 
fountainhead. 
head-Stall (hed'stal), . 1. That part of a bri- 
dle which encompasses the head. 2. Same 
as capistrum, 1. 
head-station (hed'sta'shpn), . The dwelling- 
house and offices on an Australian sheep- or 
cattle-station. [Australia.] 
Soon they passed a headxtation, as the homestead and 
main buildings of a station are invariably called. 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 42. 
head-stick (hed'stik), n. 1. Naut., a short 
round stick with a hole at each end, through 
which the head-rope of some triangular sails is 
thrust before being sewed on. 2. In printing. 
headway 
a straight piece of furniture placed at the head 
of a form, between the chase and the type. 
head-Stock (hed'stok), n. In much.: (a) The 
framing used to support the gudgeons of a 
wheel, (b) In a lathe, the frame which supports 
the live spindle, to which the work is chucked 
or dogged, as distinguished from the tail-stock, 
which supports the dead spindle ; the live head, 
(c) The transverse member which forms the end 
of the under frame of an American railroad-car, 
headstone (hed'ston), n. 1. The principal 
stone in a foundation ; the chief stone, as the 
corner-stone of a building, or the keystone of 
an arch. See cut under arch*. 2. A stone, 
usually inscribed, set at the head of a grave. 
Where Claribel low-lleth . . . 
At noon the wild bee hummeth 
About the moss'd headstone. 
Tennyson, Claribel. 
head-Stool (hed'stdl), . A small narrow kind 
of pillow used to rest the neck or cheek upon 
during repose, and leave the hair undisturbed. 
Such appliances were used when large and 
elaborate coiffures were in vogue. 
headstrong (hed'strdng), a. 1. Wilful; un- 
governable; obstinate; bent on pursuing one's 
own ends. 
Peace, headstrong Warwick ! Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 8. 
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the 
Nile. Sheridan, The Rivals, Hi. 8. 
In all his dealings he was headstrong, perhaps, but open 
aud above board. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 293. 
2. Directed by or proceeding from obstinate 
wilfulness : as, a headstrong course. 
Thus 111 curb her mad and headstrong humour. 
Shak., T. of the 8., IT. 1. 
= Syn. Intractable, unruly, stubborn, dogged. 
headstrongness (hed'strong-nes), n. Obsti- 
nate wilfulness. [Rare.] 
Rosinante's headstrongiuss . . . shews that a beast 
knows when he is weary, or hungry, better than his rider. 
Qayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 6. 
head-SWord (hed'sord), n. Water running 
through an adit-level : a Cornish mining term. 
head-tabling (hed'ta'bling), n. See tabling. 
head-timber (hed'tim'ber), n. Naut., one of 
the upright pieces of timber which are inserted 
between the upper knee and the curved rail, to 
support the frame of the head-rails. 
head-tire (hed'tlr), n. Dress or attire for the 
head. 
A chariot with bridles of gold, and an headtire of flne 
linen. 1 Esd. 111. 6. 
Their head-tires of flowers, mixed with silver and gold, 
with some sprigs of icgrets among. B. Jonson, Chloridia. 
head-tone (hed'ton), n. In singing, a tone so 
produced as to bring the cavities of the nose 
and head into sympathetic vibration, thus giv- 
ing an impression of being made there. 
head-turner (hed'ter"ner), n. A machine for 
shaping and leveling the heads of barrels. 
head-valve (hed'valv), n. In a steam-engine, 
the delivery-valve. E. H. Knight. 
head-veil (hed'val), n. A veil used to cover the 
head and usually falling behind it, as distin- 
guished from the face-veil: such a veil is an 
important part of the costume of the wealthier 
Moslem women. 
head-voice (hed'vois), . In singing, thatmeth- 
od of using the voice, or that portion of the 
singer's compass, which tends to produce head- 
tones. 
headward, headwards (bed 'ward, -w&rdz), 
adv. [< head + -ward, -wards."] Toward the 
head. Packard. 
head-wark (hed'wark), n. [< ME. heedwarke, 
hedewarke, < AS. hedfodwasre (= Iee}.hofudhverkr 
= Sw. hufvudvark = Dan. hovedvark), < hedfod, 
head, + wcerc, ache, pain.] Same as headache, 2. 
headway (hed'wa), w. 1. Motion ahead or for- 
ward ; force or amount of such motion ; rate of 
progress: said specifically of a ship, but ap- 
plied to all kinds of progress, literally or fig- 
uratively. 
The engines (of a steamer] are first "slowed," then 
stopped, and finally backed, if necessary ; when the head- 
way ceases, the anchor is let go. 
Hamersly, Naval Encyc., p. 85. 
My Lord Derby and his friends seem to think Democracy 
has made, and is making, dangerous headway. 
W. Phillips, Speeches, p. 104. 
2. In arch., clear space in height, as from a 
floor to a ceiling, or from the ground to the 
crown of an arch; specifically, the perpen- 
dicular distance from any step or landing of 
a stair to the ceiling. 3. In coal-mining, a 
cross-heading. [North. Eng.] TO fetch head- 
way. See/efcAl. 
