HEADED

To be in command of. (see also head up.)

Example: "Who heads the board of trustees?"

To come at the beginning of; to commence.

Example: "A group of clowns headed the procession."

To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball

To move in a specified direction.

Example: "How does the ship head?"

To remove the head from a fish.

Example: "The salmon are first headed and then scaled."

To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

To form a head.

Example: "This kind of cabbage heads early."

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.

Example: "To head a nail"

To cut off the top of; to lop off.

Example: "To head trees"

To behead; to decapitate.

To go in front of.

Example: "To head a drove of cattle"

To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.

Example: "The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult."

(by extension) to check or restrain.

To set on the head.

Example: "To head a cask"