| 单词 | to make a head | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a head  (b)    to make a head.extracted from headn.1  (i)   To raise a body of troops; (of soldiers, etc.) to come together in an orderly body, to rally. Also in extended use: to make a concerted stand against a person or thing. Cf. sense  55. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > 			[verb (intransitive)]		 > levy or mobilize to make a head1580 1580    T. Newton View of Valyaunce f. 24v  				An other company of the Lusitans, made an head, and ranged the countreyes of the Romaines. 1595    W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3  ii. i. 141  				In the marches here we heard you were, Making another head to fight againe. 1627    M. Drayton Miseries Queene Margarite in  Battaile Agincourt 95  				That Warwick..Had met the Duke of Yorke, and made a head Of many fresh, and yet vnfought-with bands. 1648    J. Evelyn Mem. 		(1857)	 III. 8  				To make a handsome head, and protect such as shall recruit. 1723    Hist. Reg. No. 30. 161  				In the Confusion, their..Friends would have been able to have got together, and made a Head. 1771    W. Smith Nature & Inst. Govt. I. 256  				Although the greatest part of them be of one opinion, yet it may so happen, as the lesser part having many legions, and making a head, may oppose itself against the greatest number, and get the victory. 1835    C. R. Forrester Battle of ‘Annuals’ 5  				O! doubtless they can make a ‘head’, They march so firm ‘eyes right’. 1857    W. Acton Prostitution vi. 69  				These defeated adventurers..joined their talents for the common good, and make 		[sic]	 a head against the world. 1900    E. Bellamy Duke of Stockbridge xxvi. 346  				The Squire..observed that it was high time for the authorities to make a head against the tide of blasphemy which had swept over the State since the war. 1904    D. de Leon tr.  E. Sue Pilgrim's Shell viii. 67  				The Gallic chieftain Joel, who made a head against Cæsar.  (ii)   To make headway or progress. Now rare. ΚΠ 1863    H. Moody Our County iv. 53  				Father's boy, you are too thin-skinned to make a head in the world. 1910    J. Masefield Bk. of Discov. xxii. 320  				They had to use all their wits to make a head against the storm. < as lemmas | 
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