Word Meanings - HEAVYHEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.

• Headquarters
  The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order.
• Headway
  The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
• HEADHUNTER
  A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.
• Heading
  of Head
• Headiness
  The quality of being heady.
• Headrace
  See Race, a water course.
• Headwork
  Mental labor.
• HEADLUGGED
  Lugged or dragged by the head. [R.] "The head-lugged bear." Shak.
• Headache
  Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
• Headland
  A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
• Headroom
  See Headway, 2.
• HEADMOLDSHOTHEADMOULDSHOT
  An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.
• Fellowship
  The state or relation of being or associate.
• Headachy
  Afflicted with headache.
• Headless
  Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.
• Headrope
  That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.
• HEADWATER
  The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri.

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