Sentence:  The lieutenant 's sparse brown <WSD>hair</WSD> was heavily pomaded , and as Killpath raked the comb through it , it stuck together in thatches so that it looked like umbrella ribs clinging to his pink skull . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss