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Webster 1913 Edition

Heady

Head′y

(hĕd′y̆)
,
Adj.
[From
Head
.]
1.
Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
All the talent required is to be hot, to be
heady
, – to be violent on one side or the other.
Sir W. Temple.
2.
Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
The liquor is too
heady
.
Dryden.
3.
Violent; impetuous.
“A heady currance.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Heady

HEADY

,
Adj.
hed'y. [See Head.] Rash; hasty; precipitate; violent; disposed to rush forward in an enterprise without thought or deliberation; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
All the talent required,is to be heady, to be violent on one side or the other.
1.
Apt to affect the head; inflaming; intoxicating; strong; as spirituous liquors.
Champagne is a heady wine.
2.
Violent; ;impetuous; as a heady current. [Not usual.]

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