Heady

Heady - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

HEADY, a. hed'y. [See Head.] Rash; hasty; precipitate; violent; disposed to rush forward in an enterprise without thought or deliberation; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.

All the talent required,is to be heady, to be violent on one side or the other.

1. Apt to affect the head; inflaming; intoxicating; strong; as spirituous liquors.

Champagne is a heady wine.

2. Violent; ;impetuous; as a heady current. [Not usual.]

hed'i: The translation in the King James Version of propetes, "falling forward," trop. "prone," "ready to do anything," "precipitate," "headlong" (2Ti 3:4, "heady, high-minded," etc., the Revised Version (British and American) "headstrong"; in Ac 19:36, the only other place in the New Testament where propetes occurs, the King James Version has "rashly," the Revised Version (British and American) "rash"). "Headstrong signifies strong in the head or the mind, and heady, full of one's own head" (Crabb, English Synonyms). "Heady confidence promises victory without contest" (Johnson).