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noun Heading n. 1.The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2.That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper. 3.Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc. 4.(Mining, tunneling) (a)A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; the vein above a drift. (b)The end of a drift or gallery; also, the working face at the end of a tunnel, gallery, drift, or adit from which the work is advanced. 5.(Sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch. 6.(Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward. Heading course (Arch.), a course consisting only of headers. See Header, n. 3 (a). Heading joint. (a)(Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at right angles to the grain of the wood. (b)(Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same course.
verb Head v. t. (past & past part. headed; pres. part. 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. 2.To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. 3.To behead; to decapitate. (Obs.) 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. "We'll head them off at the pass." To head up, (a)to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to. (b)To serve as the leader of; as, to head up a team of investigators.
Head v. i. 1.To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river. "A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge." 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.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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