hair

UK /hɛə/ US /hɛ(ə)ɹ/
noun 5verb 4name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.

Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.

2

The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for any part or the whole body.

3

Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp.

In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.

Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.

4

A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

5

A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.

Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

verb

1

To remove the hair from.

Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, we the said John Cant and John Millar do hereby declare that our said invention of a new method of tanning leather is described in the manner following : that our method of preparing hides and skins by liming, hairing, fleshing, and baiting, is the same as that in use by the most experienced tanners; that is to say: All leather that is to be dressed or curried, we use the operation of what tanners call baiting, for this reason; that the leather when curried should carry a sufficient quantity of oil, and dry a good colour.

By his method raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than thirty hours.

2

To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

He has haired up and healed over.

It has haired over nicely. There are no bad results from it in any way whatever that I can detect.

3

To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair

THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.

So they did three different sculptures and then ran the masks and painted them, haired them, and sent them out to us.

4

To string the bow for a violin.

The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it.

The tools used for hairing a bow by various reparimen can be unlimited in their selection. A bowmaker has a different attitude toward hairing than a repairman and this I believe reflects the type of the finished job that is done.

name

1

A surname.

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