Word Meanings - HEADSMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An executioner who cuts off heads. Dryden.

HEADSTALL
That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
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;
HEADSTONE
1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave.
HEADSTRONGNESS
Obstinacy. Gayton.
EXECUTIONER
1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
HEADSAIL
Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten.
HEADSHAKE
A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. Shak.
HEADSHIP
Authority or dignity; chief place.
HEADSPRING
Fountain; source. The headspring of our belief. Stapleton.
HEADSTOCK
A part for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine; as: The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock. The part
HEADSMAN
An executioner who cuts off heads. Dryden.
FLOORHEADS
The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
LOGGERHEADS
The knapweed.
IRONHEADS
A European composite herb ; -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle. Dr. Prior.