Word Meanings - CLEAR-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
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- HEADSTALL
That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak. - HEADING
A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - HEADLAND
1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser. - LABORIOUS
1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic. - CLEARER
A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison. - HEADNOTE
A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court. - HEADFISH
The sunfish . - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; - UNDERSTANDINGLY
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. - QUICKBEAM
See TREE - PERCEPTION
The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; - INTELLIGENTIAL
1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton. 2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require. Milton. - QUICKSTEP
A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing. - CLEAR-HEADED
Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n. - HEADRACE
See COURSE - HEADACHY
Afflicted with headache. - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - THORN-HEADED
Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead. - TORSION HEAD
That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended. - ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
A foolish or dull-witted fellow. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - BULLHEAD
A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting , the kingfish of Florida . (more info) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - PIG-HEADED
Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n. - BLUFF-HEADED
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. - WOOLHEAD
The buffel duck. - CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. - POPE'S HEAD
A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, etc., also for washing windows.