What is the meaning of HEADS. Phrases containing HEADS
See meanings and uses of HEADS!HEADS
HEADS
US Military
Ntsc Headquarters Building 2024
HEADS
HEADS
HEADS
HEADS
Acronyms & AI meanings
: Knight Commander
New York Council of Administrators of Special Education
Pioneer Valley Building Trades
Plasma Arc Cold Hearth Refining
Macomb Schools and Government Credit Union
Civilian Education
Assessment Report Indexing System
Centre for Latin American Studies at Swansea
Nautical Costa Blanca
Filipino Christian Community
HEADS
HEADS
HEADS
n.
An executioner who cuts off heads.
n.
The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
n.
The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
pl.
of Headsman
a.
Having three heads, or three origins; as, a tricipital muscle.
n.
A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.
n.
A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.
n.
A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
a.
Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.
a.
Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless.
n.
Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.
a.
Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
v. i.
A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.
n.
A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.
n.
The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
a.
Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (t/*f/"/s), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus.
a.
Headstrong.
n.
An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
n.
A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
a.
Testy; headstrong; obstinate.
HEADS
HEADS