hed

noun

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

verb

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

   “He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out.[…]””

   “It hed seven rooms and he ruffed it all over, sides an’ all. / [“Roofed the sides?”] / Thet’s what,—kivered the hull biz with shingles clean down to the ground—an’, Jimminy Crickets! the number o’ little balc’nys, an’ gables, an’ dormant winders, an’ porches thet stuck all over it, was a caution to see.”

2. (form-of, informal, obsolete, participle, past)simple past and past participle of heed

   “They finally hed my warnings!”

adj

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, not-comparable)Acronym of howardite, eucrite, diogenite (“pertaining to howarditic/eucritic/diogenitic material”).