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noun the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
noun a single domestic animal
noun that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
originFrom head (from the notion that it gives a head high) + -s (possibly either genitive or plural).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0