noun. 
                    The act or process of providing with a head: as, the heading of a pin or of a barrel.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    That which stands at the head; especially, a title; a caption: as, the heading of a paper.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Material to form a head, as timber for forming the heads of casks.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The foam on liquor.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A preparation of equal parts of alum and green vitriol, used in brewing.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In dressmaking: The upper edge of a flounce or ruffle which projects above the line stitched on the dress, etc.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Any narrow braid or trimming placed at the head of a flounce, ruffle, fringe, or other trimming.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In lace-making, the edge of the lace on the side sewed to the dress, whether as a part of the design or in the form of a separate braid.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In fireworks, the particular device of a rocket, especially when used as a signal: as, a star-heading.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A driftway or passage excavated in the line of an intended tunnel, forming a gullet in which the men work.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In coal-mining:
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    plural In placer-mining, the mass of gravel above the head of the sluice.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In brickwork, a row or course of headers; a heading-course.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The molding above a door or a window; a head-mold.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Homespun cloth.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    See the extract.