Headfast

( Naut.) A rope or hawser to fasten a ship's head to a wharf, . Head'-first, a. With the head foremost. Head ford, a market-town of Ireland, co. Galway, abt. 9 m. S.W. of Tuam; pop. about 1,600. Head-gargle, ( -gar'gl,) a. A disease among cattle. Head'ily, adv. Hastily; rashly; so as not to be gov erned. In a great degree; much; by far; exceedingly; as, Head'-gear, n. Same as HEAD-DRESS, 7. v. they are head and shoulders above me. To come to a head, to mature; to reach its full limit; as, a boil comes to a head. - Head or tail , one side or the other; this side or that; used in determining anything by the to - ing of a coin into the air, head bearing the effigy, and tail the other side; as, head or tail , two out of three? - To his head, point-blank; before his face. - Neither head nor tail , neither one thing nor the other; indistiuct; indefinite; as, I can make neither head nor tail of it. - To make head, or to make head against, to advance; to move onward in face of resistance; as, "Henry Boling- broke made head against my power." ( Shaks .) Head'ine , n. Quality of being heady; rashne ; precipitation. - Obstinacy; stubbornne ; having no disposition to submit to control. - Effervescence; ebul- lition; as, headine of liquor. To turn head, to show the face; to turn the front. "The ravishers turn head, the fight renews." -Dryden.