headborough ( gh silent), head borrow

[Eng. head, and borough.] The chief or head man of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary; a kind of village mayor; also known as bors holder or tithingman. They are now called petty constables. ( Eng.) "A headborough and a constable, a man of fame." Camden: Remaines. head-ěd, pa. par. & a. [HEAD, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language : IMG:content-1042.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Bricklaying : A brick laid with its end, or head, in the face of the wall. It acts as a bond. [BOND.] "If the header of one side of the wall is toothed as much as the stretcher on the outside, it would be a stronger toothing."- Мохоп. 2. Husb.: A form of reaper. [HEADING-MACHINE.] head-fast, s. [Eng. head, and fast.] Naut.: A rope by which the head of a ve el is made fast to a quay or ve el alongside. "Keeping up one another with their headfasts on shore."- Defoe : Tour , i. 64. head-first, adv. [Eng. head, and first.] With the head first or in front; head-foremost. headful, s. [Eng. head; ful (l).] As much as the head or brain would hold. "I'll undertake with a handful of silver to buy a head ful of wit at any time."-Ford: 'Tis Pity , i. 2. IMG:content-1043.png:[blocks in formation] 2145 3. Coopering: The pieces which compose a caskhead. The central piece is called the middle, the side pieces are the cants. 4. Fireworks: The device of a signal rocket; such as a star-heading, a bounce-heading. 5. Masonry and Bricklaying : A course of headers; the ends of the stones or bricks presented outward. 6. Mining: (1) The end of a drift or gallery; as, The heading is in solid rock, and is driven by blasting and quarrying. (2) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, or in the line of an intended tunnel, especially one of relatively small size, which forms a gullet in which men work, and which is afterward enlarged by extension sideways and downward to constitute a tunnel. (3) A horizontal pa age between the shifts or turns of the working parties. 7. Sewing : The extension of a line of ruffling above the line of stitch.