m. I. of a person, an author, originator. Cf. heáfod; VIII :-- Ðá bisceopas swíðost ǽlces gedweldes tiledon, and ǽlc gedwyld hí upp árǽrdon. Twégen ðǽr wǽron bisceophádes men þe ǽlces yfeles heáfodhebban wǽron, Hml. S. 23, 365. II. of a thing, a beginning :-- Ǽrest wé wyllað fón on Ianuarium, for þon hé is heáfodhebba and eác þás geáres geendung, Angl. viii. 305, 29. [Cf. O. H. Ger. ur-hap causa, fermentum: Ger. ur-heber originator.] heafod-hebba