(St) Head, a promontory of land in the fouthern extremity of the frith of Forth, in Scotland, 10 miles north of Berwick, and nearly the fame di- stance Abbutals stance south of Dunbar. W. Long, 1. 56. N. Lat. 55° 55'.

ABUTALS, signify the buttings or boundings of land towards any point. Limits were anciently distinguished by artificial hillocks, which were called botamines; and hence butting. In a description of the site of land, the sides on the breadth are more properly adjacent, and those terminating the length are abbutantes; which, in old surveys, were sometimes expressed by capitare, to head, whence abbutals are now called head lands.