HEAD, for beginning. In capite libri scriptum est de me: In the beginning of the book it is written of me. The Hebrew has, in volumine libri, in the volume of the book, or in the book folded up in rolls after the manner of the ancients. The river of Paradise was divided into four Heads, in Gen. ii. 10.quatuor capita, into four springs, four branches. The Stone which the builders rejected was placed at the Head of the corner, Psal. cxvii. 22.in caput anguli, was the first in the angle, whether it were dispos’d at the top of that angle to adorn and crown it, or at bottom to support it. Thy sons are killed, and thrown to the ground at the Head of all the streets, in the beginning of the high-ways; in capite Isa. li. 20. Job xx. 16.omnium viarum.
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