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Lef all this wicked crew-gather 
Their forces to one head. Ben Jonfon. 
Power; armed force.—My lord, my lord, the French 
have gather’d head, Shakefpeare. 
At lixteen years, 
When Tarfttiin made a head for Rome, he fought, 
Beyond the mark of others. Shakefpeare. 
Liberty in running a horfe : 
He gave his able horfe the head, 
And bounding forward (truck his agile heels 
Againft the panting (ides of his poor jade 
Up to the rowel-head. Shakefpeare. 
Licence; freedom from reftraint; a metaphor from 
horfenianftiip.—God will not admit of the paffionate 
.man’s apology, that he has fo long given his unruly paf- 
fions their head, that he cannot now govern nor controul 
them. South. —It is very improperly applied to roots : 
How turnips hide their fwelling heads below. 
And how the clofing coleworts upwards grow. Gay. 
Head of an Anchor, is the (hank or longed part 
of it. 
Head of a Camp, a military term, is the ground be¬ 
fore which the army is drawn out. 
Head of Flax, is twelve flicks of flax tied up to 
make a bunch. 
Head of a Work, in fortification, the front of it 
which is next the enemy, and fartheft from the body of 
the place. 
Head and Ears. The whole perfon : 
In jingling rhimes well fortified and flrong, 
He fights intrench’d o’er head and ears in fong. Granville. 
Head and Shoulders. By force ; violently.—People 
that hit upon a thought that tickles them, will be (till 
• bringing it in by head andJhoulders, over and over, in fe- 
vefal companies. V Ef range. 
HEAD, adj. Chief; principal; as the head workman ; 
the head inn.—The horfe made their efcape to Winchef- 
ter, the /iW-quarters. Clarendon. 
To HEAD, o. n. To lead; to influence; to direct; 
to govern: 
Abas, who feem’d our friend, is either fled, 
Or, what we fear, our enemies does head. Dryden. 
To behead ; to kill by taking away the head.—If you 
head and hang all that offend that way but for ten years 
together, you’ll be glad to give out a commillion for 
more heads. Shakefpeare. —To fit any thing with a head 
or principal part: 
Headed with flints, and feathers bloody dy’d, 
Arrows the Indians in their quivers hide. Fairy Queen. 
To lop trees.—You mull difbranch them, leaving only 
the fummit entire : it may be neceffary to head them 
too. Mortimer. 
HEAD of ELK, a town of the American States, in 
Maryland, at the head of Chefapeak Bay, now called 
Elkton, which fee. 
HEAD of MAN, a cape of SouihWales, in the county 
of Pembroke : fix miles wefl-fouth-wefl of Pembroke. 
HEAD-ACH,y. Pain in the head.—Nothing more 
expofes to kead-ac'is, colds, catarrhs, and coughs, than 
keeping the head warm. Locke. 
At fome dear idle time. 
Not plagu’d with head-achs , or the want* of rhyme. Pope. 
HEAD-BAND, f. A fillet for the head ; a top-knot. 
—The Lord will take away the bonnets, and the head - 
bands. Ifaiah. —The band at each end of the back of a 
.book. 
HEAD-BOROUGH,/. The head of a borough ; a 
high conftable.—King Alfred inllituted tithings, fo 
called from the Saxon, becaufe ten freeholders and their 
families compofed one. Thefe all dwelt together, and 
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were fureties or free pledges to the king for the good 
behaviour of each other. One of the tithing is annually 
appointed to prefide over the reft, being called the tith- 
ing-man or head-borough. Blackjlone. 
Here lies John Dod, a fervant of God, to whom he is 
gone, 
Father or mother, fifter or brother, he never knew none : 
A head-borough and a conftable, a man of fame, 
The firft of his houfe, and laft of his name. Camden. 
This none are able to break thorough. 
Until they’re freed by head of borough'. Hudibras. 
Under the feodal law, a head-borough was an officer 
who had a principal government within his own pledge. 
As he was called head-borough, fo-he was alfo (tiled borow- 
head, borjholder, third-borougk, tithing-man, See. according 
to the uCage and diverlity of fpeech in feveral places. 
The head-boroughs were the chief of the ten pledges ; the 
other nine being denominated hand-borows , or inferior 
pledges. 
HEAD-DRESS, f. The covering of a woman’s head. 
—There is not fo variable a thing in nature as a lady’s 
head-drefs: I have known it rife and fall. Addifon. 
If ’ere with airy horns I planted head's, 
Or difeompos’d the'head-drefs of a prude. Pope. 
Any thing refembling a head-drefs, and prominent on 
the head.—Among birds the males'very often appear in 
a mod beautiful head-drefs, whether it be a. ere ft, a comb, 
a tuft of feathers^ or a natural little plume,, eredted like 
a kind of pinnacle on- the very top of the head. Addifon. 
HEADrG ARGLE, f. A difeafe in cattle.—For the 
head-gargle give powder of fenugreek. Mortimer. 
HEAD-LAND,yi Promontory ; cape.—A heroic play 
ought to be an imitation of a heroic poem, and confs- 
quently love and valour ought to be the fubjedl of it : 
both thefe fir William Davenant began to (hadow ; but 
it was fo as difeoverers draw their maps w ith head-lands 
and promontories. Dryden.— Ground under hedges left 
for the turning of the plough : 
Now down with the grafs upon head-lands- about, 
That groweth in (hadow fo rank and fo (lout. Tujfer. 
HEAD-LINES,/ In a (hip, the head-ropes; the 
ropes which are next the yards. 
HEAD-MpULD-SHOT, f. A difeafe in children, 
wherein the futures of the (kull, generally the coronal, 
ride-, that is, have their edges (hot over one another; 
and are fo clofe locked together, as to comprefs the in¬ 
ternal parts, the meninges, or even the brain itfelf. The 
difeafe ufually occafions convulfions, and is fuppofed to 
admit of no cure from medicine, unlefs room could be 
given by manual operation or a divulfion of the futures. 
The head-mould-(hot is the {liforder oppofite to ; the 
horfe-rtioe-head. 
HEAD-PENCE, f. Art exaction of a certain fum for¬ 
merly colleiled by the Iherift'of Northumberland from 
the inhabitants of that county, without any account 
made to the king. This was aboliflied by flat. 23 Hen. 
VI. c. 7. 
HEAD-PIECE, f. Armour for the head; helmet.— 
A reafon for this fiction of the one-eyed Cyclops, was 
their wearing a head-piece , or martial vizor, that had but 
one light. Broome. 
The word is giv’n; with eager fpeed they lace 
The Ihining head-piece, and the ihielft embrace. Dryden.. 
Underftanding ; force of mind.—Eumenes had the bed 
head-piece of all Alexander’s captains. Prideaux. 
HEAD-QUAR'TERS, f. The place of general ren¬ 
dezvous, or lodgment for loldiers. This is properly two 
words.—Thofe fpirits ported upon the out-guards, im¬ 
mediately fcour off' to the brain, which is the head-quar¬ 
ters, or office of intelligence, and there they make their 
report. Collier. 
HEAD-ROPE, f Afeaterm, that part of the belt- 
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