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heady, a.|ˈhɛdɪ|
Forms: 4–5 hevedi, -y, hedi, 4–6 hedy, 6 heedye, heddie, -y, 6–7 headie, -ye, headdy, 6– heady.
[f. head n.1 + -y. Allied in orig. sense to headling adv.]
1. Headlong, precipitate, impetuous, violent; passionate; headstrong; ‘hurried on with passion’ (J.).
a. Of motion, action, personal qualities.
1382Wyclif Judg. v. 15 Into hevedi fallynge [quasi in præceps] and helle, he ȝaf hym silf to peryl. 1460Paston Lett. No. 349 I. 514 With here hevedy and fumows langage. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde Prol. (1634) 8 They that giue so precipitate and heady judgements. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. ii. (1634) 118 Raging with headie lust. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 145 That hot and heady humor which he is by nature subiect vnto. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 149 Carried with an heady and furious impetuousnesse. 1749Johnson Van. Hum. Wishes 281 His heady rage. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xv. 11 Let luxury run her heady riot. 1886Stevenson Dr. Jekyll 112.
b. Of a person. (In early use, also, domineering, overbearing (quots. 1494, 1526); passionately desirous of something, ‘keen’ upon (quot. 1540).)
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 342 Noo wonder thoughe y⊇ kyng were thus hedy or greuouse to y⊇ cytie. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 70 The fyfthe condicyon that becometh a prynce, is, that he be not heddy to his subgectes. 1526Tindale 2 Tim. iii. 4 Traytours, heddy, hye mynded, gredy apon voluptousnes more then the lovers of god. 1540in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. cxv. 324, I wold have men not be heady upon flesh at such times as yt is forbydden them. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 85 Wales being headye, and rebelling many yeares agaynst vs. 1690Locke Govt. ii. xviii. §205 Mischiefs that may happen..when a heady Prince comes to the Throne. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 184 ⁋6 Passions by which the heady and vehement are seduced and betrayed. 1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch xii, He was too heady a man to reason overmuch.
c. Of a stream or current: Impetuous, violent.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. i. 34 Neuer came Reformation in a Flood, With such a heady currance scowring faults. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xxxii. 428 Like as a headie streame glides by the bankes. 1837Blackw. Mag. XLI. 602 Swept..by the currents of the heady ocean.
2. a. Apt to affect or ‘go to’ the head; having an intoxicating or stupefying quality. Also, that affects or turns the head; that turns one giddy.
1577Harrison England ii. xviii. (1877) i. 295 There is such headie ale. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 128 All heady and intoxicating Drinks are by Law prohibited. 1664Evelyn Sylva ii. vii. (1812) II. 161 They are driven from their haunts, for a time, by garlic, and other heady smells. a1774W. Harte Charit. Mason (R.), Both ways deceitful is the wine of Power, When new, 'tis heady, and, when old, 'tis sour. 1848H. Rogers Ess. I. vi. 278 Just the man to be easily intoxicated with this heady liquor. 1893Q. [Couch] Delectable Duchy 39 The yellow was out on the gorse, with a heady scent like a pineapple's. 1898Atlantic Monthly Apr. 501/1 He would sit on a heady scaffold. 1924A. I. I. Finch in G. I. Finch Making of Mountaineer xii. 177 Up and down we seemed to go, and once round a little natural balcony that hung out over space but proved not in the least heady.
fig.1669Penn No Cross viii. §1 His [Nebuchadnezzar] Successes and Empire were too Heady for him.
†b. Affected in the head; giddy. Obs. rare.
1628Wither Brit. Rememb. viii. 820 Some sheep are headdy; some get the staggers; some the scab.
c. Headachy (cf. head n.1 1 d).
1872Geo. Eliot Let. 4 June (1956) V. 277 George, being a little heady, and unable to occupy his mornings with writing, is going tomorrow to see the aquarium. 1934Air Rev. Nov. 60, I was feeling a little ‘heady’ as..a good sea was running, and I was making an effort to eat some nice fat, greasy beef. 1955E. Hillary High Adventure 69 In the morning I felt thick and heady and a sharp cough rasped my sore throat. 1965‘J. Lymington’ Green Drift iv. 63, I was feeling very heady and tired. Ibid. 64 ‘Do you still have this heady feeling?’ ‘Yes, I think it must be the heat. Thundery.’
†3. Having a large head. Obs. rare.
1552Huloet, Headye, or hauynge a great heade, capito.
†4. Of a tenure: In chief (in capite); held direct of the crown. Obs. nonce-use.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. ii. 179 Tenure..All to be headdy, or free-hold at least.
5. Comb., as heady-rash, heady-minded adjs.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 216 Nor headie-rash prouoak'd with raging ire. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Hecyra iv. i, What are you so headie-minded that you wish the death of the child? |