Word Finder - heading

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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

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The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.

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The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)

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Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.

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A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

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The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.

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The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.

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(flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.

Unshod horses heading south.

He's heading your way.

Under the heading " Floating Debt " in the budget for1910-1911are placed the advances before described.

The era of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars falls into two main divisions, the first of which (1792-1801) is dealt with under the heading French Revolutionary Wars.

The story of the Waterloo Campaign is told under its own heading.

The maritime Atlas and the inner ranges in Algeria and Tunisia are then treated under the heading Eastern Ranges.

Of these parts, the second is considered in detail under the heading Gos1.

Under the present heading it is proposed only to discuss briefly the various types of episcopacy actually existing, and the different principles that they represent.

Aetiology is treated of under the heading EVOLUTION.

The civilized Laos were long addicted to slave-hunting, not only with the sanction but even with the co-operation of their rulers, the Lao mandarins heading regular expeditions against the wilder tribes.

The same heading already referred to gives us our only traditional information as to the period during which Isaiah prophesied; it refers to Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah as the contemporary kings.

It is without a heading, and by its abrupt transitions, and honestly preserved variations of style, invites us to such a theory as we are now indicating.

Each principal heading was further subdivided into three classes of "small," "medium" and "large," and as an increased guarantee height, length of little finger, and the colour of the eye were also recorded.

In 1252 the first treaty privileges for German trade in Flanders show two men of Lubeck and Hamburg heading the "Merchants of the Roman Empire," and in the later organization of the counter at Bruges four or five of the six aldermen were chosen from towns east of the Elbe, with Lubeck steadily predominant.

Another series of heroes, forming the central figures of stories variously derived but developed in Europe by the Latin-speaking peoples, may be conveniently grouped under the heading of " romance."

He refrained from public preaching, but held conferences in St Mark's with large gatherings of his disciples, and defied the interdict on Christmas Day by publicly celebrating mass and heading a procession through the cloisters.

Matritensis 10041 (begun in the year A.D 94 8), the words are omitted under the heading council of Constantinople but inserted under the heading council of Toledo, in the former MS., above the line and in a later hand, which shows conclusively how the interpolation crept in.

For Hindu Chronology, see the article under that heading.

D'Estrees, who was stationed with his squadron at the south end of the line, went to sea on the port tack, heading to the S.E.

The main level or gate road is driven in the benches coal, or lower part of the seam, while a smaller drift for ventilation, called an air heading, is carried above it in one of the upper beds called the slipper coal.

From the gate road a heading called a bolt-hole is opened, and extended into a large rectangular chamber, known as a " side of work," large pillars being left at regular intervals, besides smaller ones or cogs.

The air from the down-cast shaft enters from the gate road, and passes to the up-cast through the air heading above.

Close by, on the left bank of the Leine, lies the manufacturing town of Linden, which, though practically forming one town with Hanover, is treated under a separate heading.

According to the heading of the chief MS. he was a slave and was freed by Augustus.

In 1888 an act was passed providing for the use in state elections of a blanket ballot, on which the names of all candidates for each office are arranged alphabetically under the heading of that office, and there is no arrangement in party columns.

The causes which led to the revolt of the Plantations, the political and military history of the War of Independence, are dealt with under the heading of United States (History) and American War Of Independence.

Early on the morning of June r6 Prince Bernard was reinforced at Quatre Bras by the rest of his division (Perponcher's); and Wellington's other troops were now all on the march eastward except the reserve, who were heading southwards and halted at the cross-road of Mt.

This attempt also failed; for the Germans were numerically too weak, ' For Hungary, as the other constitutional half of the old AustroHungarian Monarchy, see the separate article under that heading; also Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the articles on the different " succession states " which were formed on the break-up of the monarchy in 1918.

Bowdich (London, 1820); the account of Dr Gouldsbury's journey in the Blue Book C 3065 (1881); also under the country heading below.

Under the heading Crustacea the Entomostraca have already been distinguished not only from the Thyrostraca or Cirripedes, but also from the Malacostraca, and an intermediate group of which the true position is still disputed.

See, for further information on the subject, the article Chronology, and the same heading in the Encyclopedia Biblica, cols.

For Basiliscus see Basilisk; Iguana is dealt with under its own heading; allied is Metopoceros cornutus of Hayti.

Commentaries on the Gospels of St Matthew, St Mark and St Luke, we are told by the heading in one of the MSS.

But in heading an attack on Harran, in 1104, he was severely defeated at Balich, near Rakka on the Euphrates.

The remaining fragments were, under the directions of the Royal Society, reduced by Dr Wallis to a compact form, with the heading Astronomia Kepleriana defensa et promota, and published with numerous extracts from the letters of Horrocks to Crabtree, and a sketch of the author's life, in a volume entitled Jeremiae Horroccii opera posthuma (London, 1672).

On some of these channels deep gorges were eroded heading in temporary cataracts which exceeded Niagara in height but not in breadth; the pools excavated by the plunging waters at the head of the gorges are now occupied by little lakes.

Halley added in his edition (1710) a restoration of Book viii., in which he was guided by the fact that Pappus gives lemmas "to the seventh and eighth books" under that one heading, as well as by the statement of Apollonius himself that the use of the seventh book was illustrated by the problems solved in the eighth.

This brief heading embraces all that on which Christian tradition from the end of the 2nd century was unanimous; and it says no more than that the readers addressed were Christians of Jewish extraction.

A full description of its modern condition is therefore given under the heading Oviedo; the present article being confined to an account of its physical features, its history, and the resultant character of its inhabitants.

By heading off reactionary Austria Napoleon hoped to conciliate the French Liberals; by helping the pope, to satisfy the Catholics; by concessions to be wrung both from Pius and from the Roman triumvirs, to achieve a bloodless victory.

In weight it is lighter than a shirting, and it is usually ornamented with a distinctive coloured heading.

She came under shrapnel fire off the mole, and as she rounded it a star shell showed up the "Intrepid" heading for the canal and the "Thetis" aground.

Finally, some of the special problems involved are discussed under the heading SEX.

The general trade of Poland is merged in that of Russia, under which heading it is treated.

Until that date Bagelkhand was under the Bundelkhand agency, with which it is geographically and historically connected; a general description of the country will be found under that heading.

In placing the account of the origin and development of the Habsburg monarchy under this heading, it is merely for the sake of convenience.

What has been considered under this heading, however, is the use that the same principles of magic were put to by men in their own practical life and for their own advantage.

Continental Denmark is confined wholly to Jutland, the geographical description of which is given under that heading.

For the various generic types see BOVIDAE, and the special articles referred to under that heading.

The heading Opium in the finance accounts represents the duty on the export of the drug.