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The main channel by which water is drawn from a river, lake, ., for irrigation, by dispersion through minor channels. Head'-man, n; pl. HEADMEN. A chief; a leader; a superintendent; an overlooker; a foreman. Head'-master, n. The principal of a school; the chief of a body of masters in an academy. Head'-mastership, n . Office of a principal or head master of a school; as, the head - mastership of Eton. Head-money, n. A tax levied on each head or individual, in proportion to his rank or fortune; a capita tion or poll-tax. parties at variance; to cure, as moral disease, and restore soundne to. "I will heal their backsliding." - Hos . xiv. 4.: -v. a. To grow whole or sound; to recover; to return to a sound state; sometimes followed by up or over; as, the sore heals up , the wound has healed over. Heal'able, a. Susceptible of being healed. Healds, (heelde,) n. pl. The harne for guiding the warp threads in a loom. Healds'burg, in California , a city of Sonoma co., 16 miles N.N.W. of Santa Rosa. Pop . (1897) about 1,600. Heald ville, in Vermont , a post-village of Rutland co. Heal'er, n. He or that which heals, cures, or restores to soundne .