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Heady   /hˈɛdi/   Listen
adjective
Heady  adj.  
1.
Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable. "All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, to be violent on one side or the other."
2.
Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong. "The liquor is too heady."
3.
Violent; impetuous. "A heady currance."





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"Heady" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, following her, a sort of heady madness making him only conscious of that need to hear from her own lips that she knew, "because I ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... we've never seen, Mary, the songs we've never heard. The colors, the scents, and the cruel tang of life! All these I want to see and feel, and translate into pictures. I want you with me, Mary—beautiful and free—I want us to drink life eagerly together, as if it were heady wine." He took her hand across the table. "You'll come, Beloved, you'll give all the little things up, ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... Martin's thoughtfulness had provided. It seemed unbelievable, but there was no use pretending she was mistaken—Uncle Martin, Aunt Rose's husband, was falling in love with her. She felt a little heady with the excitement of it. He was so different from the callow youths and dapper fellows who had heretofore worshipped at her shrine. There was something so imposing, so important about him. She was conscious ...
— Dust • Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
... humoring his every freak, she sought to profit. She would fix intent eyes upon him and turn her head askew to listen heedfully while she lisped after his lisping exposition of "Archie Royston." He grew heady with his sense of erudition. He would fairly roll on the puncheon floor in the vainglory of his delight when she identified chair and fire and bed and door by their accurate English names. Sometimes, in a surge of emotion, hardly gratitude or a sense of comfort, neither trust ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... On the right Raged for hours the heady fight, Thundered the battery's double bass,— Difficult music for men to face While on the left—where now the graves Undulate like the living waves That all that day unceasing swept Up to the pits the rebels kept— Round shot ploughed the upland glades, Sown with bullets, reaped ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte


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