head

Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.

The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story. […] The head should give the same impression as the body of the story.

We saw the last Campaign that an Army of Fourscore Thousand of the best Troops in Europe, with the Duke of Marlborough at the Head of them, cou'd do nothing against an Enemy that were too numerous to be assaulted in their Camps, or attack'd in their Strong Holds.

I'd like to speak to the head of the department.

At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'

She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.

As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.

Only true heads know this.

We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.

We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.

These isses are going to come to a head today.

Let the engine build up a good head of steam.

She gave great head.

Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronal heads.

My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head: