head-foremost
31head-on — I adjective 1. characterized by direct opposition a head on confrontation • Similar to: ↑hostile 2. meeting front to front a frontal attack a head on collision • Syn: ↑ …
32Head (sailing) — In sailing:*The head of a sail is its uppermost corner or, in the case of four cornered sails, sometimes its uppermost edge. *A headsail is any sail set forward of the foremost mast. *Head is the nautical name for a toilet …
33head-on — adj straight on, straight ahead; head to head, face to face, eyeball to eyeball; frontal, forward, foremost; opposing, opposite …
34head first — adverb /hɛd.fɜːst,hɛd.fɝst/ With the head first or foremost. Syn: headlong Ant: feet first …
35head-first — adverb /hɛd.fɜːst,hɛd.fɝst/ With the head first or foremost. Syn: headlong Ant: feet first …
36head and front — noun archaic : the foremost or essential feature or part the very head and front of my offending Shakespeare …
37foremost — Synonyms and related words: ahead, all absorbing, antecedent, anterior, arch, banner, before, best, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, controlling, crowning, dominant, exordial, first, firstly, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, forward …
38foremost — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. leading, first, precedent; chief, best, principal. See beginning, priority, front, superiority. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. first, chief, principal, leading; see first 1 , principal . See Synonym… …
39go by the head — (nautical) To sink head foremost • • • Main Entry: ↑head …
40A buck of the first head — Head Head (h[e^]d), n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[ a]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[ o]fu[eth], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubi[thorn]. The word does not correspond regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief},… …
