Definitions
1.verbTo be in command of. (See also head up.)"Who heads the board of trustees?"
2.verbTo come at the beginning of; to commence."A group of clowns headed the procession."
3.verbTo strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
4.verbTo move in a specified direction."How does the ship head?"
5.verbTo remove the head from a fish."The salmon are first headed and then scaled."
6.verbTo originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
7.verbTo form a head."This kind of cabbage heads early."
8.verbTo form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head."to head a nail"
9.verbTo cut off the top of; to lop off."to head trees"
10.verbTo behead; to decapitate.
11.verbTo go in front of."to head a drove of cattle"
12.verbTo get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose."The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult."
13.verb(by extension) To check or restrain.
14.verbTo set on the head."to head a cask"
15.nounThe title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
16.nounThe direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
17.nounMaterial for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
18.nounA gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
19.nounThe extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
20.nounThe end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
21.noun(flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.