heading

(hed’ing), n. [Verbal n. of head, v.] 1. The act or proce of providing with a head: as, the heading of a pin or of a barrel.— 2, That which stands at the head; especially, a title; a caption: as, the heading of a paper.—3. Material to form a head, as timber for forming the heads of casks.—4. The foam on liquor.—5, A preparation of equal parts of alum and green vitriol, used in brewing.—6. In dre making: (a) The upper edge of a flounce or ruffle which” projects above the line stitched on the dre , ete. (b) Any narrow braid or trimming placed at the head of a flounce, ruffle, fringe, or other trimming.—'7. In lace-making, the edge of the lace on the side sewed to the dre , whether as a part of the design or in the form of a separate braid.—8. In fireworks, the particular device of a rocket, especially when used as a signal: as, a star-heading.—9. A drift way or pa age excavated in the line of an intended tunnel, forming a gullet in which the men work.— 10. In coal-mining: (a) In England, often used as synonymous with head. (b) In Pennsylvania, a cro -heading, a continuous pa age for air, or for use as a manway; the place where work is being done in driving any horizontal pa age. Penn. Geol. Surv. Glo .—11. pl. In placer-mining, the ma of gravel above the head of the sluice.—12. In brickwork, a row or course of headers; a heading-course.—13, The molding above a door or a window; a head-mold.—14. Homespun cloth. C. Hallock. [Southern U. 8.]—15. See the extract. Tan-liquor is then run into the vat, and when the interstices are filled, the whole is crowned with a layer of bark, which tanners call a heading. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 366.