The meaning of Headlands

noun

A printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services.

Usage examples:

The bill for their meal came to £17

verb

List (a person or event) in a programme.

Usage examples:

They were billed to appear but did not show up

verb

(of birds, especially doves) stroke bill with bill during courtship.

Usage examples:

Two birds, perfectly white, pink-beaked, dark-eyed, pigeons, settled on the ledge outside my window…

noun

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something.

Usage examples:

The offer was denounced as a bluff

verb

Try to deceive someone as to one's abilities or intentions.

Usage examples:

He's been bluffing all along

adjective

Direct in speech or behaviour but in a good-natured way.

Usage examples:

A big, bluff, hearty man

noun

A sleeveless cloak, typically a short one.

Usage examples:

He was wearing a flowing cape

verb

(in bullfighting) taunt (the bull) by flourishing a cape.

Usage examples:

The film shows a man expertly caping a charging bull

noun

A headland or promontory.

Usage examples:

We could see the island from the cape

noun

An area of land bordering on another or lying in front of a particular feature.

Usage examples:

Floodwater may contain higher carbon dioxide concentrations if the ph is sufficiently low, but both…

noun

The upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs.

Usage examples:

Whatever comes into my head

adjective

Chief; principal.

Usage examples:

The head waiter

verb

Be in the leading position on.

Usage examples:

The st george's day procession was headed by the mayor

noun

A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.

Usage examples:

At the end of these two cows' horns are attached, and to the horns two large goat skin bellows, one…

verb

(of an animal) butt or gore (someone or something) with the horns.

verb

Think about (a fact, proposal, or request) deeply and at length.

Usage examples:

She began to mull over the various possibilities

verb

Warm (an alcoholic drink, especially wine) and add sugar and spices to it.

Usage examples:

A saucepan on the stove works just fine since we don't mull the cider for very long

noun

Humus formed under non-acid conditions.

Usage examples:

Humus should be of the mull type - ranging from acidic to calcareous, or moder in podsol.

noun

A headland or promontory.

Usage examples:

Orford ness

suffix

(forming nouns chiefly from adjectives) denoting a state or condition.

Usage examples:

Liveliness

noun

A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.

Usage examples:

The island's 3,700 acres of tropical rainforest are a biological reserve that also includes five su…

noun

An area of land mostly surrounded by water but connected to a larger piece of land

Usage examples:

The monterey peninsula

noun

The tapered, sharp end of a tool, weapon, or other object.

Usage examples:

The point of his dagger

verb

A fielding position on the off side near the batsman.

noun

A point of high land that juts out into the sea or a large lake; a headland.

Usage examples:

A rocky promontory

noun

A narrow area of high land that sticks out into the sea

verb

Eject saliva forcibly from one's mouth, sometimes as a gesture of contempt or anger.

Usage examples:

Todd spat in hugh's face

noun

Saliva, typically that which has been ejected from a person's mouth.

Usage examples:

I brought up all this phlegm and spit into my mouth, and at first it was so, so foul i nearly choked.

verb

Put a spit through (meat) in order to roast it over an open fire.

Usage examples:

He spitted the rabbit and cooked it

noun

The fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.

Usage examples:

Swallowing, which is accomplished by muscle movements in the tongue and mouth, moves the food into …

verb

Sound (a note) distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue.

Usage examples:

Eugene has worked out the correct tonguing

noun

The movable part in the mouth that is used in tasting and swallowing food and, in people, in producing speech

Usage examples:

Mcadam could speak the eskimo tongue, too.