hair
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Definitions ofhair
- A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
- The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
Example: "In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair."
- 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.
- A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
Example: "Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar)."
- 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.
- Haircloth; a hair shirt.
- Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
Example: "Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right."
- Complexity; difficulty; quality of being hairy
- To remove the hair from.
- To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
- To cause to have hair; to provide with hair
- To string the bow for a violin.
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