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Heading   /hˈɛdɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Heading  n.  
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 a paper.
3.
Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
4.
(Mining, tunneling)
(a)
A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; the vein above a drift.
(b)
The end of a drift or gallery; also, the working face at the end of a tunnel, gallery, drift, or adit from which the work is advanced.
5.
(Sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
6.
(Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
Heading course (Arch.), a course consisting only of headers. See Header, n. 3 (a).
Heading joint.
(a)
(Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at right angles to the grain of the wood.
(b)
(Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same course.


verb
Head  v. t.  (past & past part. headed; pres. part. heading)  
1.
To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.
2.
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
3.
To behead; to decapitate. (Obs.)
4.
To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
5.
To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
6.
To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer heads off a thief who is escaping. "We'll head them off at the pass."
To head up,
(a)
to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.
(b)
To serve as the leader of; as, to head up a team of investigators.


Head  v. i.  
1.
To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river. "A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge."
2.
To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
3.
To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.





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"Heading" Quotes from Famous Books



... Parts.—The Heading consists of the name of the Place at which the letter is written, and the Date. If you write from a city, give the door-number, the name of the street, the name of the city, and the name of the state. If you are at a hotel or a school, or any other well-known institution, its name ...
— Graded Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... it would be wuss than ef we had sat up all the time. We know there are Injun canoes with the flats, and they may be watching us now. We may be a long way off, but there's no saying how far a redskin's eyes can carry. Can you see where they are going to, chief?" he asked the Seneca. "Are they heading for Isle-aux-Noix, as we heard 'em say they were ...
— True to the Old Flag - A Tale of the American War of Independence • G. A. Henty
... truce to the lightning and rain. In two hours from the time of the happy reunion of the loved and lost the water became quite calm. Paul Guidon then launched the canoe and the little ships' company were soon heading toward the mouth of the St. John. In another hour and a half Paul and his companion had safely paddled Margaret Godfrey and her children ...
— Young Lion of the Woods - A Story of Early Colonial Days • Thomas Barlow Smith
... the piles," the young sea-king shouted; and the half-naked rowers, unshipping their oars, reached out under the roofs and passed the stout cables twice around the wooden supports of the bridge. The loose end was made fast at the stern of each vessel, and then, turning and heading down stream, King Olaf's twenty stout war-ships waited ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... Life of Lord Burleigh, if you will tell Longman to send me the book. However bad the work may be, it will serve as a heading for an article on the times of Elizabeth. On the whole, I thought it best not to answer Croker. Almost all the little pamphlet which he published, (or rather printed, for I believe it is not for sale,) is made up of extracts from Blackwood; and I ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan


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