| ague | fever, sickness, shaking [as caused by a fever] |
| agued | shivering, shaking [as with a fever] |
| ague-fit | feverish fit, fit of shaking |
| attire | head-dress |
| awkward | perverse, inept, wrong-headed |
| bald | bare-headed [as a sign of respect] |
| barren | stupid, empty-headed, dull |
| beef-witted | beef-brained, thick-headed, brainless |
| beetle-headed | thick-headed, doltish |
| betossed | tossed about, shaken up |
| bird-bolt, burbolt | short blunt-headed arrow for shooting birds |
| brainsick, brain-sick | foolish, addle-headed |
| brain-sickly | foolishly, in such an addle-headed way |
| Briareus | [bri'arius] son of Uranus and Gaea; legendary monster with 100 arms and 50 heads who fought and defeated the Titans for Zeus |
| bur | [prickly, clinging seedpod] thing difficult to shake off |
| bur | clinger, person difficult to shake off |
| burbolt | short blunt-headed arrow for shooting birds |
| butt-shaft | blunt-headed arrow |
| cap | [men] soft brimless head-dress; [women] loose-fitting decorative head-dress |
| cap-a-pe, cap-a-pie | [pron: kapa'pay] from head to foot, from top to toe |
| Cerberus | ['sairberus] three-headed dog guarding the entrance to the Underworld, originally 50-headed; charmed to sleep by Orpheus during his quest to rescue Euridice |
| cittern-head | [term of abuse] cittern [type of guitar] with a grotesquely carved head |
| clotpoll, clotpole, clatpole | head, pate, noddle |
| costard | [jocular: large kind of apple] head |
| coxcomb | fool's head, fool, simpleton |
| coxcomb | head |
| crest | [originally the plume of feathers on a] helmet, head-piece |
| crest | [on an animal head or neck] ridge of feathers, ridge of hairs; hackles |
| crooked-pated | with a twisted head, with a deformed skull |
| crown | head |
| curled-pate | curly-headed |
| cyme | [debated reading] plant-top, head of a plant; drug which induces vomiting |
| death's-head | skull, memento mori |
| flexure | bending [the knee or head], bowing |
| flourish | wave, brandish, shake about |
| fork | barbed arrow-head |
| forward | forelock, hair at the front of the head |
| French crown | head |
| globe | head, brain |
| gurnet | type of fish with a disproportionately large head [thus used as an insult] |
| head | arrow-head |
| head | advancing crowd of insurgents, uprising |
| head | headway, progress, advance |
| head | fighting force, army, body of troops |
| head | surface, surge, swell |
| head | act without restraint, make a rush forward |
| head | to one's face, frankly, openly |
| head | leader, chief, director |
| head | height and breadth, greatest extent |
| head | headland, cape, promontory |
| head | commander, officer, captain |
| head | power, strength, scope |
| head | source, origin, fountainhead |
| head | [of deer] with antlers first developed |
| head | category, topic, heading |
| head | head on [with an enemy] |
| head | [in expressions] |
| headed | having come to a head, full-grown, matured |
| heading | beheading |
| headlong | head downwards, without ceremony |
| head-lugged | pulled along by the ears; or: baited, tormented |
| headpiece | head-covering |
| headstall | part of a horse's bridle that goes over the head |
| heady-rash | hasty-headed, full of reckless thoughts |
| hive | beehive-shaped head-covering |
| hood | [unclear meaning] head-covering, bonnet, mask |
| horn | (plural) outgrowths imagined to be on the head of a cuckold |
| Hydra | [pron: 'hiydra] many-headed monster, the child of Typhon and Echnida; as each head was cut off, it grew again |
| Hydra-headed | many-headed, multifarious, manifold |
| idle | foolish, stupid, empty-headed |
| idle-headed | ignorant, foolish, superstitious |
| in capite | as a head |
| Janus | [pron: 'jaynus] Roman god who guards gates and doors; shown with two faces, one at the back of his head |
| kerchief | cloth head-covering, scarf |
| knotty-pated | block-headed, dull-witted |
| loggerheaded, logger-headed | thick-headed, stupid, doltish |
| mazzard | [jocular] skull, head, bowl |
| motley-minded | muddle-headed, foolish-minded |
| move | shake one's resolve, alter one's position |
| muddy | dull-witted, muddle-headed |
| multiplied | many-headed, myriad, multiple |
| mussel-shell | empty-head, gaping idiot [with mouth open like a mussel-shell] |
| nole | noddle, head |
| not-pated | crop-headed, short-haired |
| over and over | head over heels |
| palsy | shaking fit, tremor, paralysis |
| palsy | palsied, trembling, shaking |
| partisan | weapon with a long handle and a broad head, sometimes with a projection at the side |
| pash | head |
| pate | head, skull |
| Perseus | son of Zeus and Danae; advised by Athene to look at the reflection in his shield when cutting off Medusa's head, thereby avoiding being turned to stone; associated with the winged horse released by her death |
| poll | head |
| poll | voting list, head-count |
| provoke | make tremble, cause to shake |
| rheum | catarrh, head-cold, coughing and spluttering |
| ring | circle surrounding the sovereign's head [on a coin]; ringing [of the voice] |
| rowel-head | extremity of the spur-wheel |
| rug-headed | shaggy-headed, shock-headed |
| russet-pated | with reddish-brown head; or: grey-headed |
| safe | sound, sensible, level-headed |
| sconce | [jocular] head, pate, bonce |
| shake | abuse violently, scold, lambaste |
| shake | tremble, quake, shiver |
| shake | seize, grasp, move |
| shake | [unclear meaning] nod, make a sign with [in approval] |
| shake | shaking, shock, blow |
| shake | abandon, cast off, discard |
| ship-tire | fashionable head-dress shaped like a ship |
| smooth-pate, smoothy-pate | cropped-head [of a Puritan city tradesman] |
| soft-conscienced | soft-headed, easy-going, lacking real convictions |
| spleenative | of angry temperament, hot-headed |
| spleenful | passionate, furious, hot-headed |
| spleeny | hot-headed, over-emotional |
| splenitive, spleenative | of angry temperament, hot-headed |
| stamp | coin, impression [of the monarch's head] made on a coin |
| stuffed | filled with a head-cold, clogged |
| superscript | address, heading, opening |
| Tantalus | king of Sipylos in Lydia, punished in the Underworld for his crimes; he sits in a pool which recedes when he bends to drink, and the grapes over his head elude his grasp |
| tire | head-dress, ornament for the head, raiment |
| tire-valiant | fine head-dress |
| top | head |
| unbonneted | bare-headed; with all modesty |
| unbonneted | bare-headed; recklessly |
| uncovered | bare-headed, with hat in hand [in respect] |
| waspish-headed | peevish, irascible, spiteful |