Word Meanings - TRIPLE-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
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- HEADSTALL
That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak. - HEADING
A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HEADLAND
1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - THREE-MILE
Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state. - HEADNOTE
A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court. - THREE-PILE
An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak. - HEADFISH
The sunfish . - THREE-DECKER
A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks. - TRIPLE-HEADED
Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - THREE-SIDED
Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp. - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; - THREE-CORNERED
Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat. - TRIPLE
1. Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie. By thy triple shape as thou art seen. Dryden. 2. Three times repeated; treble. See Treble. 3. One of three; third. Shak. Triple crown, the crown, - THREE-PORT
Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke. - THREE-PLY
Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold. - HEADRACE
See COURSE - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - THORN-HEADED
Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead. - TORSION HEAD
That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended. - ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
A foolish or dull-witted fellow. - BULLHEAD
A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting , the kingfish of Florida . (more info) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - PIG-HEADED
Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n. - BLUFF-HEADED
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. - WOOLHEAD
The buffel duck. - CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. - POPE'S HEAD
A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, etc., also for washing windows.