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hatband
n 1: a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim

English Dictionary: headpin	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hatpin n a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headband n a band worn around or over the head; "the earphones were held in place by a headband"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headphone n electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" Synonym(s): earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headpin n the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins Synonym(s): headpin, kingpin
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heat pump n apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings; can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heath family n heathers [syn: Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, {heath family}]
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hidebound adj stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded [syn: hidebound, traditionalist]
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hot pants n a state of sexual arousal [syn: horniness, hotness, hot pants] skin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hyoid bone n a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles Synonym(s): hyoid, hyoid bone, os hyoideum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hatband \Hat"band`\, n. A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Head \Head\, n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[a0]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[94]fu[?], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief}, {Cadet}, {Capital}), and its origin is unknown.] 1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. 2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. 3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. 4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. [bd]Their princes and heads.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. --Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. --Milton. 5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. --Addison. 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. --Graunt. 7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay. 8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak. 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. --Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. --Addison. 12. Power; armed force. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. --Shak. 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. --Swift. 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. 15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. 16. The antlers of a deer. 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer. 18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight. Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. {Head}, a. {A buck of the first head}, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak. {By the head}. (Naut.) See under {By}. {Elevator head}, {Feed head}, etc. See under {Elevator}, {Feed}, etc. {From head to foot}, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. [bd]Arm me, audacity, from head to foot.[b8] --Shak. {Head and ears}, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] {Head fast}. (Naut.) See 5th {Fast}. {Head kidney} (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the pronephros. {Head money}, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton. {Head pence}, a poll tax. [Obs.] {Head sea}, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. {Head and shoulders}. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. [bd]They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.[b8] --Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. {Head or tail}, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. {Neither head nor tail}, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] {Head wind}, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. {Out one's own head}, according to one's own idea; without advice or co[94]peration of another. {Over the head of}, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Headband \Head"band`\, n. 1. A fillet; a band for the head. [bd]The headbands and the tablets.[b8] --Is. iii. 20. 2. The band at each end of the back of a book.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Headpan \Head"pan`\, n. [AS. he[a0]fodpanne.] The brainpan. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hidebound \Hide"bound`\, a. 1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal. 2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. --Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. --Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] --Quarles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hyoid \Hy"oid\, a. [Gr. [?] fr. the letter [UPSILON] + [?] form: cf. F. hyo[8b]de.] 1. Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [[UPSILON]]. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself. {Hyoid arch} (Anat.), the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull. {Hyoid bone} (Anat.), the bone in the base of the tongue, the middle part of the hyoid arch.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Head-bands (Heb. kishshurim), properly girdles or belts for the waist (Isa. 3:20, R.V., "sashes;" Jer. 2:32, rendered "attire", i.e., a girdle round the waist).