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Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.

hed (plural heds)

1. (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
2. Archaic spelling of head.

Altered spelling of had.

hed

1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.

See heed.

hed

1. (informal, obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of heed

   They finally hed my warnings!

• edh

hed

1. imperative of hedde
2. past of hedde

hed

1. future independent analytic form of immee

hed

1. Alternative form of heed

hed

1. Alternative spelling of ed
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6^c9

     Ní hed not·beir i nem, cía ba loingthech.

     It is not this that brings you sg into heaven, that you may be gluttonous.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^a22

     Is hed no·molfar.

     It is [this] that I shall praise.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21^a8

     Is hed inso no·guidimm.

     This is what I pray.

From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt-.

hed c

1. A moor; an extensive waste land.