Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HEAD'STRONG
HEAD'STRONG, a. [hed'strong.]
- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; resolute to run his own way; bent on pursuing his own will; not easily restrained. Now let the headstrong boy my will control. Dryden.
- Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy; as, a headstrong course. Dryden.
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