Definition of "head-master" [head-master]

• The principal master of a school or seminary. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The head-master with the steel watch-chain wants to have at least the whole of Belgium, the coal areas of France, and a slice of Russia."
• "They welcome me, a head-master shakes hands with me and says: “So you come form the front?"
• "This man, Thomas Rideout, long had been the head-master of the smuggling school."