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English Dictionary: heading	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for heading
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heading n a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" Synonym(s): heading, header, head the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies Synonym(s): bearing, heading, aim a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" Synonym(s): drift, heading, gallery
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Head \Head\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Headed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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. --Dryden. 2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. --Spenser. 3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] --Shak. 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. {To head up}, to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heading \Head"ing\, 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.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. 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. --Knight. {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.