To check or restrain.
To be in command of. (See also head up.)
To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
To form a head.
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
To go in front of.
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
To move in a specified direction.
To remove the head from a fish.
To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
To cut off the top of; to lop off.
To set on the head.
A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
A headdress; a covering for the head.
A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
The uppermost part of a valley.
The antlers of a deer.
Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
The headstock of a guitar.
The leafy top part of a tree.
The top edge of a sail.
A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
The toilet of a ship.
An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
Headway; progress.
Mind; one's own thoughts.
Topic; subject.
The end of an abscess where pus collects.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The glans penis.
The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
A headmaster or headmistress.
Denouement; crisis.
The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Leader; chief; mastermind.
Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
An individual person.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
The bow of a vessel.
A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
The population of game.
The principal melody or theme of a piece.
A single animal.
The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
A headland.
More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
Coming from in front.
Placed at the top or the front.
Foremost in rank or importance.
To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
To live; reside
To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
To brace or support with a stay or stays
To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
To continue to have a particular quality.
To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
To hold the attention of.
To cause to cease; to put an end to.
To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
To tack; put on the other tack.
Steep; ascending.
Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
(of a roof) Steeply pitched.
A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
A corset.
Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
A prop; a support.
A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
Steeply.