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ˈhead-piece
The piece that covers or forms the head.
1. A piece of armour for the head, a helmet.
1535Latimer Serm., Insurrect. North (1844) 31 Take also the helmet or head-piece of health. a1627Hayward Edw. VI (1630) 37 He finding the Earle..without his helmet..tooke of his owne headpeece and put it on the Earles head. 1697Dryden æneid vii. (1886) 176 The shining headpiece and the shield. 1843Macaulay Lays Anc. Rome, Lake Regillus xxviii, Mamilius smote Herminius Through head⁓piece and through head. 1874Boutell Arms & Arm. 106 The head-pieces of these warriors.
2. Any covering for the head; a cap.
1552Inv. Ch. Goods Surrey (1869) 90 Vj amyses or hed peases. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. ii. 26 He that has a house to put 's head in, has a good Head-peece. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. xvii, His ordinary head-piece, a striped woollen nightcap. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 213 A fine plain clear-starched caul..was plaited on a Scotch gauze head-piece.
3. The head, skull, cranium. arch.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 241 In his headpeace he felt a sore payne. 1627F. E. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 89 One and the self-same Hood doth fit the head-piece of divers Actors. 1836–8B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Acharnians ii. ii, I will speak, sir, with my head-piece On a butcher's chopping-block.
b. The figure-head of a ship.
1807–8Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 136/1 A wooden image of Lord Mulgrave, going down to Chatham, as a head-piece for the Spanker gun-vessel.
4. The head, as seat of the intellect; brain.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. i. 2 Not lurking in the obscure head-pieces of one or two loytering Fryers. 1613Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 262 The hurt..which was feared had somewhat crazed his headpiece. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 79 You have an excellent head-piece for your years. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. V. 231 An easy, good-natured, and gentlemanly being..with no great head⁓piece. 1890Boldrewood Col. Reformer (1891) 402 With a real good headpiece too, though there's not much book⁓learning in it.
b. A man possessed of brains; a man of intellect.
1656Burton's Diary (1828) I. 309 Of all the head-pieces that were there, he was thought to give the strongest reasons. 1720Gay Poems (1745) I. 226 Is not this Steward of mine a pure ingenious fellow now..a rare head-piece? 1803Chalmers Let. in Life (1851) I. 475 Exhibiting yourself..as a great philosopher, a wonderful head-piece.
5.
†a. The protective covering of the forehead of a barded horse (obs.).
b. A halter, a headstall.
1530Palsgr. 230/1 Head pece of harnesse, armet, chafrayn. 1611Cotgr., Chanfrain de Cheval d'armes, the front-stall, head-peece, or forhead-piece, of a barbed horse. 1632Sherwood, The head-peece of a bridle. 1678Littleton Lat. Dict. s.v., The head-piece of a bridle, capistrum. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury (1856) I. iii. 20 Horses [with] head-pieces and bearing-reins.
6. The top piece or part of various things.
a. The lintel of a door or window. b. The head-board of a bed. c. The upper part of a section of a made mast. d. The top part of a yoke for attaching cattle.
1611Cotgr., Linteau, the lintell or headpeece ouer a doore. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 46/1 The Windows..Their head-piece may be upon a line with the top of the Columns. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 27 The heel-piece..coaks on to the heel of the lower tree, and the head-piece to the upper tree. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 473 A button or knob at each end..put into the circular holes of the flat head-piece [of a yoke].
7. Printing. A decorative engraving placed at the top of the first page of a volume and at the beginning of books, chapters, etc.
1718Freethinker No. 70 ⁋1, I am at a Loss for a Head-Piece to my Paper; to speak in the Printer's Language. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 156 This and several head-pieces in the same book were designed by Holbein. 1866Brande & Cox Dict. Sc., Lit. etc. II. 101 Headpieces have been revived of late years; they are mostly copied from old works. |