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• head sea;   head wind
• Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[...]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, [...]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
• I've got to go to the head.
• We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
• We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
• These isses are going to come to a head today.
• Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption.
• The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself.
• Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
• She gave great head.
• Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronal heads.
• The term, "head," is, of course, not new with hippies. It has a long history among drug users generally, for whom it signified a regular, experienced user of any illegal drug—e.g., pot "head," meth "head," smack (heroin) "head."
• The hutch now looks like a “Turkish bath,” and the heads have their arms around one another, passing the pipe and snapping their fingers as they sing Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears” into the night.
• My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
• At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
• the head cook
• Give me a head of lettuce.
• Who heads the board of trustees?
• to head an army, an expedition, or a riot
• We are going to head up North for our holiday. We will head off tomorrow. Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago. Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping.
• I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going to head out on my own, set up my own business.
• How does the ship head?
• The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
• A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge.
• This kind of cabbage heads early.
• To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. [...] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.
• to head a nail
• to head trees
• to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship
• to head a cask
• to ~ up north suunnata pohjoiseen
• What does it say at the head of the page?
• Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
• The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
• He has no head for heights.
• This song keeps going through my head.
• “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[...]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
• he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the ‘head’ that followed after drink.
• a laced head;   a head of hair
• Admission is three dollars a head.
• 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
• 12 head of big cattle and 14 head of branded calves
• at five years of age this head of cattle is worth perhaps $40
• a reduction in the assessment per head of sheep
• they shot 20 head of quail
• we have a heavy head of deer this year;  planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves
• Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
• Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
• During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
• Hit the nail on the head!
• The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.
• Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
• The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.
• Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
• The king sat at the head of the table.
• an army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them
• I'd like to speak to the head of the department.
• Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.
• “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.[...]”
• I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
• Only true heads know this.