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To be in command of. (See also head up.)
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Who heads the board of trustees?
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To come at the beginning of; to commence.
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A group of clowns headed the procession.
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To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
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To move in a specified direction.
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How does the ship head?
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To remove the head from a fish.
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The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
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To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
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To form a head.
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This kind of cabbage heads early.
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To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
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to head a nail
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To cut off the top of; to lop off.
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to head trees
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To behead; to decapitate.
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To go in front of.
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to head a drove of cattle
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To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
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The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.
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(by extension) To check or restrain.
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To set on the head.
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to head a cask