Heading

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Material for the heads of casks, barrels, ·etc.

II. Heading ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Head.

III. Heading ·noun That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.

IV. Heading ·noun The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.

V. Heading ·noun That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.

VI. Heading ·noun The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.

VII. Heading ·noun A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

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