head

noun

1. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
2. Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
3. Mind; one's own thoughts.
4. A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
5. A headdress; a covering for the head.
6. An individual person.
7. A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
8. The population of game.
9. The antlers of a deer.
10. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
11. The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
12. The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
13. The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
14. The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
15. The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
16. Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
17. The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
18. The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
19. A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
20. A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.