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n. தலை, மண்டை, முகடு, சிறப்புக்குரிய இடம், ஆணைக்குரிய இடம், மேலிடம், தலைவர், ஆட்சித்தலைவர், முதல்வர், தலைமை ஆசிரியர், மூளை, அறிவாற்றல், தன்னடக்க ஆற்றல், அறிவின் இருப்பிடம், கற்பனையின் பிறப்பிடம், தொழிலில் இயற்கைத்திறம், இயற்சார்புத்திறம், முன்னேற்றம், ஆற்றல்முகப்பு, நீர்மங்களின் உயர வேக அழுத்தங்களின் பயனான ஆற்றலளவின் மொத்தம், வலிமை, கிளர்ச்சியாற்றல், உச்சி, மேல்பகுதி, உருண்ட மேல்புறம், தலைப்புறுப்பு, முன்புறம், உருண்டு திரண்ட முன்பகுதி, முகப்புப்பகுதி, நிலமுனைக்கோடி, படைமுகம், படையணி முகப்பு, உச்ச உயர்நிலை, முடிநிலை, திரண்ட முடிபு, நெருக்கடிக் கட்டம், முக்கிய பகுதி, முக்கிய செய்தி, மூலம், பிறப்பிடம், ஆற்றுமூலம், ஏரியில் ஆறு வந்து கலக்கும் பகுதி, உயர்நிலை, உயிர், நாணயத் தலை உருவம், படுக்கைத் தலைப்புறம், தலைப்பாகை, தலை உடை ஒப்பனை, தேறல் நுரைத்தலை, பாலின் மேலாடை, சீக்கட்டுமுகம், பருவின் முதிர்ப்பழுப்பு, திரள் மலர்க்கொத்து, தழைக்கொத்து, மரத்தின் கிளைதழைத்தலைப்பு, மயிர்முடி, நரப்புக் கருவி வகையின் சுருள்முனைப் பெட்டி உறுப்பு, முரசின் தோல்முகம், மிதிவண்டியின் முகப்புக்குழாய், பொறி அமைவின் உயிர்நிலை உறுப்பு, கால்நடை விலங்குகளின் எண்ணுதற்குரிய ஒன்று, தனித்தனி உருப்படி, தனித்தனி ஆள், (வி.) தலை அமைத்துக் கொடு, உச்சி அமை, தலைப்பு அமை, தலையாய் அமை, உச்சியாய் அமைவுறு, தலைப்பாகு, மரஞ்செடி கொடிகளின் தலைப்பகுதியை வெட்டு, உச்சியை வீழ்த்து, தலைமைதாங்கு, தலைமை தாங்கிச்செல், நடத்திச் செல், முந்து, முன்செல், முன்சென்று திரும்பு, மேம்படு, எதிர், முன்னேறு, முதிர்வுறு, வளர்ந்து முனைப்பாகு, நோக்கித் திருப்பு, நேர்ப்படு, சுற்றிச் சென்று திருப்பு, உதை பந்தாட்டத்தில் பந்தைத் தலையால் தாங்கி எறி, (கப்.) நோக்கிச்செல்.

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Head, n. Etym: [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. heáfod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. höfu, Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. Chief, Cadet, Capital), and its origin is unknown.] 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. "Their princes and heads." Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. Milton. 5. 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. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. Addison. 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. Graunt. 7. 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. Men who had lost both head and heart. Macaulay. 8. 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. 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. Shak. 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. Addison. 12. Power; armed force. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. Shak. 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. Swift. 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. 15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. 16. The antlers of a deer. 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. Mortimer. 18. pl. Defn: Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. Knight. Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. Head, a. A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. Shak. -- By the head. (Naut.) See under By. -- Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator, Feed, etc. -- From head to foot, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. "Arm me, audacity, from head to foot." Shak. -- Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] -- Head fast. (Naut.) See 5th Fast. -- Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates -- Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. Milton. -- Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.] -- Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. -- Head and shoulders. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. "They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders." Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. -- Head or tail, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. -- Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] -- Head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. -- Out one's own head, according to one's own idea; without advice or coöperation of another. Over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. M. Arnold. -- To be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane. -- To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw. -- To give (one) the head, or To give head, to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. "He gave his able horse the head." Shak. "He has so long given his unruly passions their head." South. -- To his head, before his face. "An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head." Jer. Taylor. -- To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire. -- To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind. -- To make head, or To make head against, to resist with success; to advance. -- To show one's head, to appear. Shak. -- To turn head, to turn the face or front. "The ravishers turn head, the fight renews." Dryden. Head, a. Defn: Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook. Head, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Headed; p. pr. & vb. n. Heading.] 1. 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. Dryden. 2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. Spenser. 3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] Shak. 4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees. 5. 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. 6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask. To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer heads off a thief who is escaping. -- To head up, to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to. Head, v. i. 1. To originate; to spring; to have its A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge. Adair. 2. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head 3. To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.