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We have spotted HEAD (4 Letters) a total of 198 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with HEAD and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
• | The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. |
• | The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. |
• | The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. |
• | The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. |
• | The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. |
• | Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. |
• | The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. |
• | The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. |
• | A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. |
• | A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. |
• | Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. |
• | Power; armed force. |
• | A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. |
• | An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. |
• | A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. |
• | A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. |
• | The antlers of a deer. |
• | A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. |
• | Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. |
• | Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook. |
• | To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot. |
• | To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. |
• | To behead; to decapitate. |
• | To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees. |
• | To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship. |
• | To set on the head; as, to head a cask. |
• | To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river. |
• | To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head? |
• | To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Broccoli unit
- Bowler’s place
- Spot for a bowler
- Chief
- Nail part
- Go first
- What can follow each word in the five longest Across answers
- Diarist Anaïs
- Top part
- O in hangman
- Leader
- ___ for the hills
- Place for a beanie
- Unit of cabbage
- One lettuce
- Ball of lettuce
- Noggin
- What's common to a nail and a whale
- Top dog
- Unit of cauliflower
- Cabbage unit
- ___ shoulders knees and toes
- Part of a river that ironically doesnt contain the mouth
- Cauliflower unit
- Foam on top of a beer
Usage among publishers:
- LA Times: Nov 8, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Sep 11, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Aug 27, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Jul 16, 2024
- Thomas Joseph: Jul 10, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Jul 5, 2024
- Newsday: Jun 7, 2024
- New York Times: Mar 28, 2024
- New York Times: Feb 27, 2024
- New York Times: Feb 25, 2024
- LA Times: Feb 6, 2024
- USA Today: Jan 16, 2024
- USA Today: Dec 23, 2023
- USA Today: Nov 21, 2023
- Newsday: Jul 24, 2023
- USA Today: May 16, 2023
- Universal: Apr 28, 2023
- Newsday: Apr 22, 2023
- Wall Street Journal: Mar 16, 2023
- USA Today: Mar 3, 2023
- LA Times: Mar 2, 2023
- Universal: Mar 1, 2023
- New York Times: Jan 14, 2023
- Eugene Sheffer: Jan 10, 2023
- USA Today: Jan 2, 2023