hair
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape, comb”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier, Híer (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Cimbrian haar, har (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German and Low German Haar (“hair”), Luxembourgish Hoer (“hair”), Mòcheno hor (“hair”), Yiddish האָר (hor, “hair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hår (“hair”), Faroese and Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).
The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire.
Inflected forms:
form: hairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hairs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hairing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: haired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: haired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: singular
uncountable
usually
gloss: Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp.
pos: noun
tags: singular
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
usually
gloss: A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
usually
examples: Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
gloss: Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
usually
examples: (uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
gloss: A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
usually
gloss: Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
usually
examples: Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
I won by a hair.
Now listen to what you've got to do, and this time if you deviate a single hair or try any of your monkey tricks it's the deep end you'll go off at.
gloss: Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
pos: noun
tags: singular
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: January 2014, Barack Obama, quoted in "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, in The New Yorker
Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.
gloss: To remove the hair from.
pos: verb
tags: singular
transitive
usually
examples: 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.
I took 25 hides out of the Lime with Stephens help I haired them and fleshed them
gloss: To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
singular
usually
examples: 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.
The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.
gloss: To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
pos: verb
tags: singular
transitive
usually
examples: 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.
The winter had haired them like llamas, the sleet had worked no hardship, as a horse paws to the grass, and any concern for the outside saddle stock was needless.
gloss: To string the bow for a violin.
pos: verb
tags: singular
usually
examples: 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.
To hair a bow, a hank of horse hair (A) is selected and combed so that all hairs are parallel to each other.
Related words: depilate
depilation
depilator
depilatory
epilate
epilation
epilator
epilatory
Derived words: angel's hair
bacon hair
beard hair
blue hair
broccoli hair
dehair
dehairer
good hair
hair belt
hair bobble
hair-bowed
hair bun
hairburner
hair-dresser
hair dresser
hairdresser
haired
hairedness
hairen
hairful
hair ice
hairing
hairist
hair job
hair-knot
hairless
hairlessly
hairlet
hairlike
hair-like
hair net
hair-pulling disorder
hair scale
hairsedge
hair system
hair topper
hairworker
hairworking
hairy
Old Hairy
hang by a hair
harm a hair on someone's head
helfie
hockey hair
ice cream hair
loose anagen hair syndrome
love-hair
macrohair
mermaid's hair
microhair
nanohair
netherhair
nether hair
nonhair
overhair
peppercorn hair
recession hair
rehair
Sabinas brittle hair syndrome
underhair
underhaired
unhair
unhairing
witch's hair
a hair past a freckle
androgenic hair
angel hair
asshair
axillary hair
baby hair
bad hair day
ballhair
bamboo hair
bed hair
Berenice's Hair
big hair
bluehair
body hair
brittle hair syndrome
camelhair
camelshair
cartilage-hair hypoplasia
cathair
chest hair
club hair
crosshair
cunt hair
curled hair
deer-hair
deer's hair
doghair
ear hair
facial hair
frog hair
goathair
goatshair
guard hair
gustatory hair
hairball
hairband
hair band
hairbird
hairbow
hair bracket
hairbreadth
hairsbreadth
hair's breadth
hair brush
hairbrush
hair brushing
hair bulb
hair bundle
haircalf
haircap
haircare
hair care
hair cell
hair chalk
hair clip
hairclip
haircloth
haircoat
haircolor
hair conditioner
hair curler
hair-curling
haircurling
haircut
haircutter
haircutting
hair divider
hairdo
hairdress
hairdressing
hairdressing salon
hair drop
hairdryer
hair dryer
hair dye
hair elastic
hair extension
hair fairy
hairfall
hair follicle
hair fork
Hairgate
hair gel
hair glove
hairgrass
hair grass
hairgrip
hair grip
hair in the gate
hair iron
hair jelly
hair lace
hairlift
hair line
hairline
hairlock
hairlore
hair loss
hairmageddon
hair mask
hair match
hair metal
hairmonger
hair moss
hair moth
hairnet
hair of the dog
hair oil
hair pencil
hair pie
hairpiece
hairpin
hair pin
hair pipe
hair plate
hairplay
hairpluck
hair plug
hair powder
hairpuller
hairpulling
hair-raiser
hair restorer
hair rig
hair roller
hair salon
hair-salt
hair salt
hair seal
hair seating
hairshaft
hair shirt
hairshirt
hair sieve
hairslide
hair snake
hair space
hairsplit
hairsplitter
hair-splitter
hair-splittery
hairsplitting
hair-splitting
hairspray
hair spray
hairspring
hair stick
hair stone
hairstreak
hairstring
hair stroke
hairstyle
hairstyler
hairstyling
hair styling
hairstylist
hair stylist
hairswidth
hairtail
hair-tidy
hair tie
hair tonic
hair trigger
hair-trigger
hair twist
hairwash
hairwashing
hair wax
hairwear
hairweaving
hairwork
hairworm
hat hair
headhair
head of hair
helmet hair
horsehair
kinky hair disease
lady's hair
longhair
long hair
long hair sedge
maidenhair
maid's hair
manhair
Menkes kinky hair syndrome
moosehair
no-hair theorem
nose hair
nostril hair
Pele's hair
pubic hair
red hair
red pussy hair
red cunt hair
root hair
sex hair
shorthair
short hairs
stadia hair
steely hair disease
swimmer's hair
terminal hair
uncombable hair syndrome
vellus hair
Venus hair fern
Venus's hair stone
wild hair
wirehair
wirehaired
black-haired
brown-haired
curlyhaired
dark-haired
fair-haired
ginger-haired
grey-haired
hair-brown
hair-on-fire
hair-raising
hairraising
long-haired
silver-haired
silvery-haired
tow-haired
white-haired
whitehaired
yellow-haired
comb one's hair
comb someone's hair the wrong way
curl someone's hair
make someone's hair curl
get grey hair from
get in someone's hair
get out of someone's hair
give someone grey hair
give grey hair to
have a wild hair to
keep one's hair on
let one's hair down
long hair don't care
make someone's hair stand on end
not turn a hair
not worth a hair
one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
part one's hair
pull one's hair out
put hair on someone's chest
put hair on one's chest
set one's hair on fire
light one's hair on fire
run around with one's hair on fire
split hairs
tear one's hair
tear one's hair out
turn a hair
against the hair
by a hair's breadth
fine as frog('s) hair
finer than frog hair
hair out of place
to a hair
Antarctic hair grass
camel-hair brush
fine as frog hair
fine as frog's hair
get gray hair from
give gray hair to
give someone gray hair
hair-brush
hair-clip
hair curling
hair cut
hair-dryer
hair-grip
hair of the dog that bit one
hair raiser
hair raising
hair-raisingly
hair-shirt
hair-shirted
hair-splittingly
maiden-hair
nether-hair
re-hair
to the turn of a hair
hair up
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