hed

Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the 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.

• unhed

Altered spelling of had.

hed

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

• edh

hed

1. imperative of hedde
2. past tense of hedde

hed

1. future independent analytic formal of immee

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. 21a8

     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.