1. title, headline; flight direction. heading\head"ing\, n.
2. the act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.
3. that which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
4. material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
5. (mining.) a gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
6. (sewing) the extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
7. (masonry) that end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.heading course (arch.), a course consisting only of headers. see:
header, n. 3 (a)heading joint. (a) (carp.) a joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at right angles to the grain of the wood. (b) (masonry) a joint between two roussoirs in the same course.heading n.
8. a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" [syn: head].
9. the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies [syn: bearing, aim].
10. (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: drift, gallery].
11. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.
12. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
13. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
14. A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
15. The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
16. That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward. a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text".
17. A variant of -hood.
18. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
19. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.
20. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.
21. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
22. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
23. Each one among many; an individual; often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
24. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
25. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.
26. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
27. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
28. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
29. Power; armed force.
30. Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
31. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.
32. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
33. To behead; to decapitate.
34. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
35. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
36. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
37. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
38. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head? To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early. a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle" a projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin" a toilet on board a boat or ship the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer" an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!" that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window" the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus" the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent the front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack" the top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list" the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container; "the beer had a large head of foam" a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet" a user of drugs; "the office was full of secret heads" a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation" an individual person; "tickets are $5 per head" the pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam" the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head; "he is two heads taller than his little sister"; "his horse won by a head" the tip of an abscess remove the head of; "head the fish" to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains" be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed early this year" be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president" be the first or leading member of and excel; "This student heads the class" take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas".
39. A heading is the title of a piece of writing, which is written or printed at the top of the page. helpful chapter headings. see also:
head.
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