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[Eng. hazy; -ne .] The quality or state of being hazy. "He could not see half a mile by reason of the hazine of the weather." - Fielding: A Voyage to Lisbon. hāz'-ý, a. [Eng. haz(e); -v.] 1. Lit.: Foggy, misty; thick with haze. "A tender hazy brightne ." Words worth: Yarrow Visited. 2. Fig .: Dim, obscure; not clear; as, to have hazy notions about anything. hë (po . his , obj. & dat. him ; plural, nom, they , po . their , obj. & dat. them ), pron . [A.S. hé (masc. nom. sing. hé , gen it, his , dat. him , acc. hine ; fem. nom. sing. heó , gen it. & dat. hire , acc. hi ; neut. nom. "Let it stand in a tub four or five days before it be put the head or yeast into it."-Mortimer: Husbandry. 10. The maturated or ripened part of an ulcer or boil. 11. The source or origin of anything; said, spec if., of a stream. "False Mowbray, their first head and spring." Shakesp.: Richard II., ii. 1. IMG:content-1033.png:[blocks in formation] II. Technically: 1. Anatomy: The skull, or cranium, part of the head consists of an o eous ovoidal capsule for the protection of the brain (q. v.). The face proper consists of the upper and lower jaws. The skull in old age becomes composite like the sacrum in the adult. The margins, or sutures, of the cranial bones, twenty-two in number, excluding the hyoid bone, correspond to the articular proce es in the trunk. In youth the flat cranial bones are connected by a double lamina of cartilage; notwithstanding the junction of the margins, they grow by the increase of one cartilage and the o ification of the other. Like the arch in the movable vertebræ, we have the arch in the head; in the lower part there are bones physiologically connected with the head bones of the neck. There are three segments in the head:-( a ) The posterior, beginning from the cervical vertebræ below the occipital segment, consisting of a single bone, in reality four bones; a part of it lies at the base of the cranium at the back of the face, but the greater part extends up the back of the cranium. It consists of a ring, lateral sides, and an arch. (b) The anterior, consisting of the frontal and ethmoid bones. The only vestige here of the vertebral foramen, is the Foramen Cæcum. (c) The central segment; in the middle line below, and cut in two halves by the mesial plane, is the sphenoid bone, but along with it are two bones, the temporal, attached to its outer portions or great wings, compo8ing the basis of the arch completed by the two parietal bones. Those segments are divided by the lambdoidal sutures and coronal. The head is divided into a base and a vault, or calvarium; the inner aspect is called the cerebral, the other the superficial, external, ., aspect. The bone on the outside of the cranium is not so dense as it is on the inside, in accordance with a law of construction in all animal and vegetable bodies, a law of part, and a law of place. Some anatomists.count four segments, the two temporal bones constituting the fourth. [CRANIUM.] (2) Comp .: The vertebrata have a head homologous in its anatomy with that of man. That of the Annulosa is homologous in functions, but not in parts. The Cephalopodous and Gasteropodous Mollusks have heads, the Conch if era, sometimes called Acephala, want them. Most animals of lower organization than these are destitute of heads. 2. Arch .: The capital (Lat. caput = a head) of a column. 3. Books, .: The top of a standing book; sometimes gilded that the dust may be blown off. 4. Carpentry: (1) The top of a door, window, or bay; as, a circular head . (2) The top-beam or ridge-beam of a bridge or 19. A crisis; a pitch; a height; a degrec of strength or power. "The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself."- Add is on . 20. A topic of discourse; a division of a subject discoursed on; a branch. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, "My fourth argument upon this present head. " Clarke: On the Attributes, Prop. 8. chin, bench: go, gem; thin, this; (2) The up-stream end of a canal-lock. 10. Machinery , Forging , & c.: (3) The upper or steel portion of an anvil. (4) That stock of a lathe containing the live- spindle; a poppet. [LATHE.] 11. Mill - work : The cap of a windmill. 12. Mining: 13. Printing: (1) The upper end of a page or column. 2144 2. Anything resembling a head-dre , and prominent on the head. "Among birds the males very often appear in a most IMG:content-1034.png:[blocks in formation] (1) By the height of the head and shoulders; as, He is head and shoulders taller than you. *(2) By force; by hook or by crook. "People that hit upon a thought that tickles them will be still bringing it in by head and shoulders, over and over, in several companies." -L'Estrange. 3. Of his , Iter, their , ., own head: Spontaneously; of his, her, ., own accord. 4. Head or tail: A phrase used in to ing a coin to decide a chance. [ Cro and pile.] 5. Neither head nor tail: Neither one thing nor the other. 6. By the head: IMG:content-1035.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Sing .: A member of any of the races or tribes mentioned under 2; any person who collects human heads as trophies. "He adopted the Dyak costume, and became a notorious head-hunter." -Keppel: Visit to the Indian Archipelago , i. 141. 2. Pl .: A name given to several races or tribes, notably to the Dyaks and Kyans of Borneo and Celebes, on account of their savage mania of hunting for heads, generally by nocturnal ambuscades, and treasuring them as trophies. Tylor ( Prim . Cult ., i. 414) connects the barbarous custom with the rite of funeral human sacrifice, and says that the Dyaks considered that the owner of every human head they could procure would serve them in the next world, where their rank would depend on the num a head is exacted from every aspirant to a Dyak bride. The influence of Sir James Brooke did a great IMG:content-1036.png:[blocks in formation] Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . II . , i. 1. 12. To come to a head: To suppurate; said of an ulcer or boil; hence, fig., to ripen. 13. To eat its head off : Said of horses either doing no work, or work the value of which does not even pay for their keep. "Our horses were eating their heads off at livery." Parker Gill more: Great Thirst Land , ch. vii. 14. To gather head: To gain strength or force. 15. To make head: To make way; to resist with succe . 16. Head of a bone: disappearing. Kean ( Journ . Anthrop . Inst . , ix. 294) says that the practice also exists, with almost identical circumstances, among the wild Kirkis, Nagas, and Garos of the eastern frontier of Bengal, while traces of it are found among the Baltaks and some other races of the Indian Archipelago.