(1967) 36, I have not felt myself since my generous allowance of the potent green on Thursday.‥ To day for the first time I awoke without a head. 1888 Kipling Plain Tales from Hills 15 The ‘head’ that followed after drink. 189 Don't you know how one feels sometimes that one has got a head? And when that is the case one's armchair is the best place. such a condition caused by a blow or over-indulgence in liquor. 163 She stood Among her maidens, higher by the head.

Bee’ Slang 94 Head (turf), ‘won by a head’, or ‘half-a-head’:‥is by so much that one horse comes in before another. 104/2 The first heat was‥won by Omen, beating Play or Pay by only half a head. §69 Near the head higher than most tall Men. 44 Thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus. VI 166b, Beyng taken‥was made shorter by the hedde. Metrical Paraphrase Old Testament 5160 He was cumly to ken, of breyd and heyghnes als, A bowe all oþer men both be þe hede and þe hals. 233 He'd leave his head behind him, if it was loose.ġ3‥ Sir Gawain & Green Knight 333 Þe stif mon hym bifore stod vpon hyȝt, Herre þen ani in þe hous by þe hede and more. 1818 Scott Rob Roy viii, As if I had brought the Gorgon's head in my hand. (1865) 130, I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. For whan the head aketh, all the bodie is the wurs. (1867) 70 God sende that hed (said she) a better nurs.

20 The sonne of the man hath not wheron to leye his heede. 125 Oon of the lewdeste of the shippe badde him ley down his hedde. Cuthbert (Surtees) 924 His fete vpwarde, his heued doune. 36 Neither thou shalt swere by thin heued. 5314 (Trin.) On his heede his hatt he bare. (hɛd) Forms: 1 héafod, -ud, -ut, 1–2 heofod, 2 hefed, -et, heavet, 2–3 heafd, hæfed, 2–4 hefd, heaved, 2–5 heved, 3 hæfd, heifd, hafed, hafd, hafved, hæfved, hefved, hæved, ( hæhved), hevod, hevd, 3–5 hevid, -yde, 3–6 heed, 3–8 hed, 4 hewid(e, -yd(e, 4–7 hede, 6– head (5–6 heede, hedd(e, 6 heade, 5– ( Sc.) heid, 6 heide, heyd).

Timid by Jonathan Todd