Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
head .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The head.
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Examples
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And this croune had Crist on his heved, whan he was don upon the cros: and therfore oughte men to worschipe it and holde it more worthi than ony of the othere.
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And the spere schaft hathe the Emperour of Almayne: but the heved is at Parys.
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And upon tho hilles growen trees of cedre, that ben fulle hye, and thei beren longe apples, and als grete as a mannes heved.
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And the spere schaft hathe the Emperour of Almayne: but the heved is at Parys.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And upon tho hilles growen trees of cedre, that ben fulle hye, and thei beren longe apples, and als grete as a mannes heved.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And this croune had Crist on his heved, whan he was don upon the cros: and therfore oughte men to worschipe it and holde it more worthi than ony of the othere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Eng. del heved, is perhaps generally from a shop sign.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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The Anglo-Saxon name for the Blackberry was the Bramble-apple; and Sir John Mandeville, in describing the Cedars of Lebanon, says: "And upon the hills growen Trees of Cedre, that ben fulle hye, and they beren longe Apples, and als grete as a man's heved" [20: 2] (cap. ix.).
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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But sheten her heved in the stre · to sharpen her wittes.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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And the spere schaft hathe the Emperour of Almayne: but the heved is at
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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