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Definition of Headful
1. Noun. The quantity of information that a head will hold. "He has a headful of baseball statistics"
2. Noun. A covering over the surface of your head. "A headful of lice"
Definition of Headful
1. Noun. An amount of information, emotion, etc. present in the mind. ¹
2. Adjective. (genetics) That fills the head of a phage ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headful
1. a great amount of knowledge [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headful
Literary usage of Headful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"For in May we had swelled our estate by the seven hundred acres of the Kohler
property, and Jack needed such aid in carrying out his headful of ambitions. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"headful of haunting melodies. Domingo's gaze went oft' from her face; Very soon,
too, there came a mail-day he could no longer meet her eyes, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1826)
"... Through the wide wastes it roared, and hollows vast, And filled the deep with
horror, f-ar, and wonder: Not half so headful noise the tempests cast, ..."
4. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"The " peal of bells " was a headful of ringing bells ; the " treasurer" showed
the hair dangling with coins. The "naval battle" displayed a French ship of ..."
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