Hypertext Webster Gateway: "heady"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Heady \Head"y\, a. [From {Head}.]
1. Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion;
ungovernable.

All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady,
-- to be violent on one side or the other. --Sir W.
Temple.

2. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.

The liquor is too heady. --Dryden.

3. Violent; impetuous. ``A heady currance.'' --Shak.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

heady
adj : extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic [syn: {intoxicating}]

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