The top or crown of the head; the head itself. Now English regional.

The uppermost part of the body of a human, or the front or uppermost part of the body of an animal… With reference to humans.

The uppermost division of the body; the head; esp. the crown of the head. Chiefly, now only, in alliterative expressions: see 25 26, and in slang…

The head. Obsolete.

The top or crown of the head; the skull, cranium. Now only Scottish and northern dialect (scaup, scap).

literal. The head (of the body). Obsolete. rare.

By extension: a person's head; (also) the hair on a person's head. Now somewhat rare.

The head of a person or animal. (In quot. 1562 at sense applied apparently to the head or top of an engine of war.) Obsolete or ? dialect.

Used generally to denote the head of a person or (occasionally) an animal. Now literary or regional (chiefly Irish English).

The head.

ball in the hood and variants: applied humorously to the head. Obsolete.

The head.

The head. Now colloquial or humorous.

humorous or in contemptuous use. A person's head. Cf. coconut, n. 1b. Obsolete.

The head of a person or animal. Now archaic.

Applied to the head (in contexts relating to its removal from the rest of the body). Obsolete.

humorous. A person's head or (occasionally) hair. Now rare (archaic or colloquial in later use).

A jocular term for: The head; esp. the crown or top of the head; hence, ‘head’, ability, sense, wit. †Also put for the person himself.

= noll, n.

The head; the skull or cranium. Obsolete.

In extended use. A person's head; = mazard, n. 2. Obsolete.

humorous. The head. Now archaic.

humorous. The head; = coxcomb, n. 5a. Obsolete. rare.

The head.

Skull, head.

The head; the brain.

A piece of wood or other substance on which something is moulded, shaped, or fashioned: spec. transferred. A head, esp. in to knock one's block off…

Used humorously for ‘head’. (Cf. skull, n.1)

transferred. Headpiece, head.

Perhaps: a head. rare.

Originally cant. The head. Also figurative. Cf. ginger nob n. at ginger, n. adj.1compounds 2. Now colloquial and somewhat archaic.

= cranium, n.

(a) the head; the brain (now chiefly U.S.); (b) U.S. (frequently depreciative) a school; cf. knowledge factory n. (now historical).

slang. The head. Cf. noddle, n.1 1b 1c.

colloquial (originally Boxing slang). The head.

The head.

slang. The head; esp. in phrases to be wrong in one's garret, to have one's garret unfurnished, etc.

figurative. colloquial (originally Boxing slang). A person's head. Now rare.

= knowledge box n. (a).

slang. The head. Cf. coconut, n. 1b, nut, n.1 12a.

The head, skull.

slang. The head. Cf. coco, n. 1b, nut, n.1 12a.

The piece that forms or is at the top of anything; spec. The head. colloquial.

colloquial. The head.

In full Barnet fair. The hair; hence, the head.

slang. The head.

Jocosely applied to the head. off his chump (vulgar): ‘off his head’, out of his senses.

The head. slang.

The head. So off one's conk: off one's head; crazy.

Nautical slang (humorous). The top of a person's head. Obsolete. rare.

slang. The head (cf. nut, n.1 12).

The head. slang.

slang. The head; esp. in balmyor barmy on (or in) the crumpet: wrong in the head, mad: see balmy, adj. 7, barmy, adj. 2b.

The head. slang.

slang. The head. Obsolete. rare.

The head. slang (originally U.S.). bean ball n. Baseball a ball pitched at the batter's head.

The head. See also bat, n.1 b. slang.

U.S. slang. The head; the mind.

slang. Australian and U.S. A person's head.

slang (chiefly British). The head; the brain, the mind. Cf. brain-box, n. 1.

slang. The head.

slang. The (human) head; hence, the mind, common sense; esp. in to use one's loaf.

More fully pound of lead. The head.

The head. Australian slang.

Originally and chiefly Australian. The head. Chiefly in to do (also lose) one's nana: to lose one's temper. Also to be off one's nana: to be mad. Cf…