HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)

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HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7) , the upper portion of the

body

BODY

in man, consisting of the skull with its integuments and contents, &c., connected with the trunk by the neck (see ANATOMY, SKULL and BRAIN); also the anterioror fore part of other animals. The word is used in a large number of transferred and figurative senses, generally with reference to the position of the head as the uppermost part, hence the leading,

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

portion of anything.
HEAD-HUNTING, or HEAD-SNAPPING, as the Dutch

call

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

it, a custom once prevalent among all Malay races and surviving even to-day among the Dyaks (q.v.) of Borneo and elsewhere. Martin de Rada, provincial of the Augustinians, reported its existence in Luzon (Philippine Islands) as early as 1577. The practice is believed to have had its origin in religious motives, the

worship

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

of skulls being universal among the Malays. Severe repressive

measures

MEASURES

have led to its decrease. Among the Igorrotes all that remains is the dance, accompanied by singing, around the bare pole on which the head was formerly fixed. With the Ilongotes a bridegroom must bring his

bride

BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

a number of heads, those of Christians being preferred. The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

examples of head-hunters are the Was, a hill-tribe on the north-eastern frontier of India, and the Nagas and Kukis of Assam.
See Bock, Headhunters of Borneo (1881); W. H.

Furness

FURNESS
FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD (1833– )

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Life of Borneo Head-hunters (Philadelphia, 1902); T. C. Hodson, Head-hunting in Assam," in Folk-

Lore

LORE
LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

, xx. 2. 132.

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