headgear

n 1: clothing for the head [syn: {headdress}]

2: the hoist at the pithead of a mine

3: any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head

header

1. The portion of a {packet}, preceding the actual data,

containing source and destination addresses, error checking

and other fields.

2. The part of an {electronic mail} message or {news} article

that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other

things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and

time the message was sent.