Addle-head (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate |
Bass drum () The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a. |
Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead |
Cubbridge-head (n.) A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. |
Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death |
Dragon's head () Alt. of Dragon's tail |
Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick |
Drum (n.) Anything resembling a drum in form |
Drum (n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. |
Drum (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. |
Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear |
Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed |
Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery |
Drum (n.) See Drumfish. |
Drum (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house |
Drum (n.) A tea party |
Drum (v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks |
Drum (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks |
Drum (v. i.) To throb, as the heart. |
Drum (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc, |
Drum (v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune. |
Drum (v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum |
Drum (v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum |
Drum major () . |
Drum major () The chief or first drummer of a regiment |
Drum major () The marching leader of a military band. |
Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4. |
Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
Giddy-head (n.) A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. |
-head (suffix.) A variant of -hood. |
Head (n.) 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 |
Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object |
Head (n.) The place where the head should go |
Head (n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body |
Head (n.) The place or honor, or of command |
Head (n.) Each one among many |
Head (n.) The seat of the intellect |
Head (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river |
Head (n.) A headland |
Head (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse |
Head (n.) Culminating point or crisis |
Head (n.) Power |
Head (n.) A headdress |
Head (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. |
Head (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles |
Head (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. |
Head (n.) The antlers of a deer. |
Head (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. |
Head (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. |
Head (a.) Principal |
delusion illusion head game | the act of deluding, deception by creating illusory ideas |
oral sex head | oral stimulation of the genitals, they say he gives good head |
self-gratification head trip | the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure |
head | a single domestic animal, head of cattle |
head louse Pediculus capitis | infests the head and body of humans |
death's-head moth Acherontia atropos | European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull |
moonfish Atlantic moonfish horsefish horsehead horse-head dollarfish Selene setapinnis | any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies |
drum drumfish | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise |
striped drum Equetus pulcher | a kind of drumfish |
red drum channel bass redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
ax head axe head | the cutting head of an ax |
bass drum gran casa | a large drum with two heads, makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch |
bongo bongo drum | a small drum, played with the hands |
brake drum drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
cylinder head | a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump |
drum membranophone tympan | a musical percussion instrument, usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end |
drum metal drum | a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids |
drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
drumhead head | a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum |
drum printer | a line printer in which the type is mounted on a rotating drum that contains a full character set for each printing position |
drum sander electric sander sander smoother | a power tool used for sanding wood, an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor |
golflub head club head club-head clubhead | (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball |
head | a projection out from one end, the head of the nail, a pinhead is the head of a pin |
head | (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship |
head | the striking part of a tool, the head of the hammer |
head | (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head, call heads or tails! |
head covering veil | a garment that covers the head and face |
head gasket | a gasket to seal a cylinder head |
head gate | a gate upstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end |
headrest head restraint | a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash |
head shop | a shop specializing in articles of interest to drug users, he bought some roach clips and hashish pipes at the head shop |
magnetic head | an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface and later retrieved |
Pitot-static tube Pitot head Pitot tube | measuring instrument consisting of a combined Pitot tube and static tube that measures total and static pressure, used in aircraft to measure airspeed |
read write head head | (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk |
rotor head rotor shaft | the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
sluicegate sluice valve floodgate penstock head gate water gate | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
snare drum snare side drum | a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head |
steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
tenor drum tom-tom | any of various drums with small heads |
Turk's head | an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban |
valve-in-head engine | internalombustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head |
egotism self-importance swelled head | an exaggerated opinion of your own importance |
head register head voice head tone | the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing, the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head |
start head start | the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race), with an hour's start he will be hard to catch |
mane head of hair | growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being |
head | that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves |
head caput | 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 |
human head | the head of a human being |
head | the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint, the head of the humerus |
mind head brain psyche nous | that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings, the seat of the faculty of reason, his mind wandered, I couldn't get his words out of my head |