head
/hɛd/ noun A1- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. · Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill. · The company is looking for people with good heads for business.· He has no head for heights.
- Mind; one's own thoughts. · This song keeps going through my head.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- A headdress; a covering for the head. · a laced head· a head of hair
- An individual person. · Admission is three dollars a head.
- A single animal; measure word for livestock and game. · 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
- The population of game. · We have a heavy head of deer this year.
Plural heads
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“’Tis true, madame,” answered he, “that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.”
Morrel; and I think you will be satisfied on that head.
We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
As Edmond paused, the black and bearded head of Caderousse appeared at the door.
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