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.
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.