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noun
Headpiece  n.  
1.
Head. "In his headpiece he felt a sore pain."
2.
A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.
3.
Understanding; mental faculty. "Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains."
4.
An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.





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"Headpiece" Quotes from Famous Books



... like it really. Kind of stuff you read: in the track of the sun. Sunburst on the titlepage. He smiled, pleasing himself. What Arthur Griffith said about the headpiece over the Freeman leader: a homerule sun rising up in the northwest from the laneway behind the bank of Ireland. He prolonged his pleased smile. Ikey touch that: homerule sun rising up ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... my sword to my side, now first I get my body guarded with mail-coat and headpiece, the helm keeping my brows and the stout iron shrouding my breast. None shrinks more than I from being burnt a prisoner inside, and made a pyre together with my own house: though an island brought me forth, and though ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap-bark and sand. An old half-breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth. He chops down the weeds and ever-springing grass with his machete, he plucks ants and ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... by him; but he said: Do this also for me, take off thine headpiece, since now that we know thee for a woman it serveth thee nought. So did she, and began her tale straightway, and told him all thereof, save as to the wood-wife, and he sat hearkening and watching her face; and ...
— The Water of the Wondrous Isles • William Morris
... that spearhead seize, And the bold sea-rover slay, Him whose blows on headpiece ring, Heaper up of piles of dead. Then on Endil's courser[17] bounding, O'er the sea-depths I will ride, While the wretch who spells abuseth, Life shall ...
— The story of Burnt Njal - From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga • Anonymous


Words linked to "Headpiece" :   bridle, helmet, headstall, band


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