Meaning

• 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."

• The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

  "What does it say at the head of the page?"

• (social, metonymy) A leader or expert.

• A significant or important part.

• Headway; progress.

  "We are having a difficult time making head against this wind."

• Topic; subject.

  "We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements."

• Denouement; crisis.

  "These isses are going to come to a head today."

• (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.

• Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

  "She gave great head."

• The glans penis.

• A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

• Power; armed force.

Meaning

• To be in command of. (See also head up.)

  "Who heads the board of trustees?"

• To come at the beginning of; to commence.

  "A group of clowns headed the procession."

• To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball

• To move in a specified direction.

  "How does the ship head?"

• To remove the head from a fish.

  "The salmon are first headed and then scaled."

• To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

• To form a head.

  "This kind of cabbage heads early."

• To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.

  "to head a nail"

• To cut off the top of; to lop off.

  "to head trees"

• To behead; to decapitate.

• To go in front of.

  "to head a drove of cattle"

• To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.

  "The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult."

• (by extension) To check or restrain.

• To set on the head.

  "to head a cask"

Meaning

• Of, relating to, or intended for the head.