1. Having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination
   "a cool-headed fighter pilot"; "headed bolts"; "three-headed Cerberus"
    
2. Having a heading or course in a certain direction
   "westward headed wagons"
    
3. Having a heading or caption
   "a headed column"; "headed notepaper"
    
4. Of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
   "headed cabbages"

1. Be in charge of
   "Who is heading this project?";
   - lead
    
2. To go or travel towards
   "where is she heading?"; "We were headed for the mountains"
    
3. Travel in front of; go in advance of others
   "The procession was headed by John";
   - lead
    
4. Be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
   "This student heads the class";
   - head up
    
5. Control or determine the movement, direction, or course of something
   "The captain headed the ship through the strait";
   - steer, maneuver [US], manoeuvre [Brit, Cdn], direct, point, guide, channelize, channelise [Brit]
    
6. Take its rise
   "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas"
    
7. Be in the front of or on top of
   "The list was headed by the name of the president"
    
8. Form a head, come or grow to a head
   "The wheat headed early this year"
    
9. Remove the head of
   "head the fish"

See also: bicephalous, burr-headed, headlike, large-headed, mature, orientated [Brit], oriented

Type of: arise, command, continue, control, develop, direct, form, go forward, grow, lead, lie, move ahead, originate, precede, proceed, remove, rise, spring up, take, take away, uprise [archaic, literary], withdraw

Antonym: headless, unheaded

Encyclopedia: Headed