a & n. See Achæan, Achaian. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Dull-witted; stupid. “The addle-brained Oberstein.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dull and addle-pated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + head. ] 1. In or to the front; in advance; onward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Headlong; without restraint. [ Obs. ] L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on onward. (c) To push on in an enterprise. [ Colloq ] --
To get ahead of. (a) To get in advance of. (b) To surpass; to get the better of. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + heap. ] In a heap; huddled together. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an airheaded person. [ disparaging ] [ PJC ]

adj. 1. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; scatterbrained; stupid; simple-minded; as, airheaded teenagers. Contrasted with serious, solemn
Syn. -- dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, lightheaded, light-headed, silly [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ althaea, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. (b) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amenorrhea AS
‖ n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + mh`n month + "rei^n to flow: cf. F. aménorrhée.] (Med.) Pathological or physiological absence of menstruation. [1913 Webster + AS]

a. [ L. amphitheatralis: cf. F. amphithéâtral. ] Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. amphitheatrum, fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'amfi` + &unr_; theater: cf. F. amphithéâtre. See Theater. ] 1. An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Romans first constructed amphitheaters for combats of gladiators and wild beasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. amphitheatricus. ] Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the form or manner of an amphitheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. Sagittaria sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arrowheaded characters, characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person whose head is bald. 2 Kings ii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A white-headed variety of pigeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

, a. Having a bald head; lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; -- alsp called bald and bald-pated; as, a bald-headed gentleman. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ }, a. & adv. Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an area in hostile territory that has been occupied and is held to allow aditional troops and supplies to enter.
Syn. -- bridgehead, foothold. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Arch.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) (a) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew. (b) (Antiq.) Same as Beak, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beastly + -head state. ] Beastliness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beetle a mallet + head. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dull; stupid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beheaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Beheading. ] [ OE. bihefden, AS. beheáfdian; pref. be- + heáfod head. See Head. ] To sever the head from; to take off the head of. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beheading. [ Modern ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An apron or covering for the front of the person. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. given or giving freely.
Syn. -- big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, generous, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Naut.) A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon line is run out when the whale darts off. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The scaup duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; mucus + &unr_; to flow. ] (Med.) (a) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. (b) Gonorrhea. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Block + head. ] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid; dull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blunder + head. ] A stupid, blundering fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Wu-i, pronounced by the Chinese bu-i, the name of the hills where this kind of tea is grown. ] Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name was formerly applied to superior kinds of black tea, or to black tea in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The head of a bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person of low intelligence; a dunce; a blockhead; -- used deprecatingly to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence or capabilities.
Syn. -- dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, fuckhead. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. very stupid; -- used of people or actions. [ informal ] -- bone"head*ed*ness, n.
Syn. -- blockheaded, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed. [WordNet 1.5]

n. (Zool.), small harmless hammerhead shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies, having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries.
Syn. -- shovelhead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Headborough. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are several species so named, as the pilot whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more species of Hyperoödon (Hyperoödon bidens, etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Goodness; generosity. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tête-de-pont. [ 1913 Webster ]