head sb. (the chief idiomatic, technical, and special uses are the foll.)
1.
put for ‘ears’
LLL. IV. iii. 336
“When the suspicious
of
theft is stopp'd,”
Troil. IV. v. 5,
Per. II. iii. 97
“Loud music is too harsh
for ladies' heads”
; for ‘mouth’
Cym. V. v. 158
“Those”
[viands] “which I
heav'd to head”; = the mod. ‘face’ in the phr. “to” (one's) “head”
Meas. IV. iii. 151,
Ado. V. i. 62, MND. I. i. 106.
2.
antlers of a deer,
roebuck, &c.
1H6 IV. ii. 51
“Turn on the bloody
hounds with h-s of steel”
; quibble in Troil. IV. v.
31, 45, 46; “of the first ,” said of a
deer, &c., at the age when the antlers are
first developed LLL. IV. ii.
10.
3.
source of a river;
fig. source, origin
All'sW. I. iii. 180
“Your salt tears' ,”
R2 I. i. 97,
Ham. I. i. 106
“The source of this our
watch and the chief head Of this
post-haste.”
4.
headland, promontory
Ant. III. vii. 51.
5.
category Tim. III. v. 28*
“set quarrelling Upon the head
of valour.”
6.
hostile advance,
resistance Ham. IV. v. 101*
“Laertes, in a riotous
head.”
7.
body of people
gathered or raised, armed force
John V. ii. 113
“this gallant of
war,”
1H4 I. iii. 285
“by raising of a
head,”
IV. iv. 25, Cym. III. v. 25; phr.
“make (a) ,” raise a body
of troops 1H4 III. i. 65,
3H6 II. i. 141
“Making another ”
Cæs. IV. i. 42,
Cym. IV. ii. 139
“make some stronger
head.”
∥ The S. phr. “head and front” (Oth. I. iii. 80）
probably = summit, height, has been used with other
meanings by mod. writers.
