Noun

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(label) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.

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# (label) To do with heads.

## Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.

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## Mind; one's own thoughts.

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##* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=[https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/288354.George_Goodchild George Goodchild]

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## A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.

##* 1888 , (Rudyard Kipling), ‘Thrown Away’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005 edition, page 18,

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he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the ‘head ’ that followed after drink.

## A headdress; a covering for the head.

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## An individual person.

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# (label) To do with heads.

## A single animal.

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## The population of game.

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## The antlers of a deer.

(label) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

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# The end of a table.

## The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.

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## (label) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.

# (label) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

## The end of a hammer, axe, golf club or similar implement used for striking other objects.

## The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.

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## The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer.

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## (label) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.

## (label) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.

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## A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.

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## (label) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

## (label) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.

# The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

# (label) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

# Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

# (label) The end of an abscess where pus collects.

# (label) The headstock of a guitar.

# (label) A leading component.

## The top edge of a sail.

## The bow of a vessel.

# (label) A headland.

A leader or expert.

# The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.

#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

an army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them

# Leader; chief; mastermind.

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# A headmaster or headmistress.

# A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

A significant or important part.

# A beginning or end, a protuberance.

## The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.

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## A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.

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##* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=[http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-van-tassel David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan]

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### An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.

## (label) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.

## (label) The toilet of a ship.

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## (label) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

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# A component.

## (label) The principal melody or theme of a piece.

## (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.

Headway; progress.

Topic; subject.

(label) Denouement; crisis.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Ere foul sin, gathering head , shall break into corruption.

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

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.

(label) Pressure and energy.

# A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

# The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.

# More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

(slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

(slang) The glans penis.

(slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

* 1936 , Lee Duncan, Over The Wall , Dutton

Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronal heads .

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* 2005 , Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home , Simon & Schuster, page 177,

The hutch now looks like a “Turkish bath,” and the heads have their arms around one another, passing the pipe and snapping their fingers as they sing Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears” into the night.

(label) Power; armed force.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head .

(Jonathan Swift)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) The master of the servants of a household; (label) the master of a feudal manor

*c. 950 , (Lindisfarne Gospels), Matt. xxiv. 46

*:Eadig ðe]] ðone miððy cymes hlaferd his on-fand sua [[doing, doende.

*1611 , (King James Bible), Matt. xxiv. 46

*:Ble??ed]] is that finde [[so, ?o doing.

*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , iii. ii. 167 ff.

*:Por . ...But now, I was the Lord

*:of this faire man?ion]], of my [[servants, ?eruants,

*:Queene]] oer [[myself, my ?elfe...

*1794 , E. Christian in (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England) , II. 418

*:Lords of manors are distinguished from other land-owners with regard to the game.

#(label) The male head of a household, a father or husband.

#*831 , charter in Henry Sweet, The oldest English texts , 445

#*:Ymbe ðet lond et cert ðe hire eðelmod hire hlabard salde.

#*1594 , (William Shakespeare), "(The Rape of Lucrece)"

#*:...thou worthie Lord ,

#*:Of that vnworthie]] wife that [[greets, greeteth thee

#*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), (The Taming of the Shrew) (1623), v. ii. 131 f.

#*:Pet. Katherine , I charge thee, tell the?e]] [[head-strong, head-?trong women,

#*:What dutie]] they doe owe their Lords and [[husbands, hu?bands!

#*1611 , (King James Bible), Gen. xviii. 12

#*:Therefore Sarah laughed within her ?elfe]], , my lord being old [[also, al?o?

#*1816 , (Jane Austen), , III. xvi. 300

#*:Yes, here I am, my good friend; and here I have been so long, that anywhere else I should think it necessary to apologise; but, the truth is, that I am waiting for my lord and master.

#(label) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession

#*ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 601 f.

#*:Als]] oure lauerd has [[heaven, heuen in hand

#*:Sua]] [[should, suld man be lauerd of land.

#*1480 , Waterford Archives in the 10th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1885), App. v. 316

#*:All suche lordes as have gutters betuxte]] [[their, thar houses.

#*ante'' 1637 , (Ben Jonson), ''Sad Shepherd , ii. i. 36

#*:A mightie Lord of Swine!

#*1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro)'s Æneis , xii

#*:Turnus...

#*:Wrench'd from his feeble hold the shining Sword;

#*:And plung'd it in the Bosom of its Lord .

#*1874 , J. H. Collins, Principles of Metal Mining (1875), Gloss. 139/2

#*:Lord''''', the owner of the land in which a mine is situated is called the ‘' lord ’.

One possessing similar mastery over others; (label) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler

*c. 893 , Orosius's History , i. i. §13

*:Ohthere sæde his hlaforde , Ælfrede cyninge, þæt...

* 1530 , John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement , 680/1

It is a pytuouse]] case... whan subjectes rebell [[against, agaynst their naturall lorde .

* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , xii. 70

Man over men He made not Lord .

# (label) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king

# A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one

#* ante 1375 , William of Palerne (1867), l.4539

To fare out as fast with his fader to speke, & with lordesse of þat]] [[land, lond.

#* ante'' 1420 , T. Hoccleve, ''De Regimine Principum , 442

Men myghten lordis knowe

By there]] arraye, from [[other, oþir folke.

#* 1453 , Rolls of Parliament, V. 266/2

If such persone bee of the estate of a Lord , as Duc]], Marques, Erle, Viscount or [[baron, Baron.

#* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (The life and death of King Richard the Second) , iv.i.18

Princes, and noble Lords :

What an?wer]] I make to this [[base, ba?e man?

#* 1614 , J. Selden, Titles of Honor , 59

Our English name Lord , whereby we and the Scots stile]] all such as are of the Greater [[nobility, Nobilitie i. Barons, as also Bishops.

#* 1900 July 21, Daily Express , 5/7

The Englishman of to-day still dearly loves a lord .

# A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones

#* 1526 , W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection , i. sig. Bviiiv

Farre]] excellyng the state of lordes , erles, dukes or [[kings, kynges.

#* 1826 , (Benjamin Disraeli), Vivian Grey , II. iii. iii. 26

The Marquess played off the two Lords and the Baronet against his former friend.

One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)

* ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 782

O wityng bath]] [[good, god and ill ?ee suld be lauerds at ?our will.

* 1398 , John Trevisa translating Bartholomew de Glanville's De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495), viii. xvi. 322

The sonne]] is the lorde of [[planets, planetes.

1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro) as (Georgics) , iii

Love is Lord of all.

* 1992 November 18, (Larry David), (Seinfeld) , 4.11: "(The Contest)":

But are you still master of your domain?

I am king of the county. You?

Lord of the manor.

# The magnates of a trade or profession

#* 1823 , W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (1885), I. 399

Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!

(label) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time,

* (Geoffrey Chaucer), Treatise on the Astrolabe , ii. §4:

The assendent]], & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan hows of the [[ascendant, assendent.

A hunchback.

*1699 , B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew :

Lord , a very crooked, deformed... Person.

Sixpence.

* 1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement , 782/1:

Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord ’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.