Crossword clues for headpiece
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headpiece \Head"piece`\ (-p[=e]s`), n.
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Head.
In his headpiece he felt a sore pain.
--Spenser. A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.
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Understanding; mental faculty.
Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains.
--Prideaux. An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The head; the brain. 2 Something covering the head. 3 Protecting cover for the head; a helmet. 4 A headset. 5 A headstall. 6 A decorative page heading. 7 The top piece or part of various things.
WordNet
n. the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head [syn: headstall]
a protective helmet for the head
Wikipedia
A headpiece is an object worn on the head for decoration or protection.
Headpiece may refer to:
- A typically thin metallic crown, headband, or tiara worn around the forehead. Commonly worn by ancient rulers, such as Cleopatra, headpieces usually carry some emblem of religious or political significance.
- A beaded or woven meshwork, often fringed, and worn covering the hair - fascinator.
- The part of a dance or theatrical costume that is worn on the head.
Alternatively, " headpiece" may be a printer's term for decorative element placed at the top of a page; the "tailpiece" was a similar element placed at the bottom of the page.
Headpiece (also spelled head-piece), is a decoration printed in the blank space at the beginning of a chapter or other division of a book, usually an ornamental panel, printer's ornament or a small illustration done by a professional illustrator.
The use of decorative headpieces in manuscripts was inherited by the medieval West from late Antique and Byzantine book production, and enjoyed particular popularity during the Renaissance.
Headpieces, sometimes incorporating a rubric or heading, as well as Zoomorphic and anthropomorphic motifs were used widely in manuscripts and in editions of the Bible in the 15th-century.
Usage examples of "headpiece".
Hordle John, who lay with his great limbs all asprawl, and his headpiece balanced upon his uplifted foot.
The men were armed for the most part with sword and pistol, while a few had the buff-coats, plates, and headpieces taken at Axminster, still stained sometimes with the blood of the last wearer.
Going over to the bed and the box that she had laid on the bedspread, she lifted the lid and pulled out the slip, corselette and headpiece she knew she would find there.
And on top of that, they fix a high headpiece called a gugu, a thing made of bark, decorated with bits of colored felt and ribbons.
Tuit reseated his headpiece, gestured at his navigator, and then clomped off the bridge.
The subofficer on site provided coordinates, which Dysseen promptly entered into his headpiece.
For once, he was glad that he was not one of the high priests, since their costumes included conical headpieces as well.
Lwaxana adjusted her elaborate headpiece, a large affair with exotically upswept sidepieces of gleaming black metal.
She had to force herself to think of the proximity of sharp hexalate blades which could rip gelsuit or airflow headpiece.
Beside him lay a feathered headpiece and a sword attached to a richly broidered baldrick.
Experiencing a sudden, un-characteristic attack of claustrophobia, he hurried to remove the survival suit's headpiece.
I still had the U-shaped plastic headpiece that Foster had used to acquire a background knowledge of his old home.
He was referring to his camail, a headpiece of chain armour that hung down from his fool's bonnet to his shoulders, over his ears.
In the days of Grail and Roembden, explosive charges had been used to drive the headpiece onto the container with the man, in order that the freezing process take place as rapidly as possible.
Attired in a Geneva gown of canary-yellow silk and a sequined headpiece similar to that seen on the statues of Krishna, he looked like the rising sun.