Definition of hair

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Hair (n.) An 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)..

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Moult :: Moult (v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed..
Trichome :: Trichome (n.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes..
Pappus :: Pappus (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order..
Capillaceous :: Capillaceous (a.) Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.
Chaired :: Chaired (imp. & p. pr.) of Chai.
Pubescent :: Pubescent (a.) Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants..
Nettle :: Nettle (n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England..
Crop :: Crop (n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop..
Tippet :: Tippet (n.) A length of twisted hair or gut in a fish line.
Chair :: Chair (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself..
Perfoliate :: Perfoliate (a.) Surrounded by a circle of hairs, or projections of any kind..
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..
Easy-chair :: Easy-chair (n.) An armchair for ease or repose.
Frizette :: Frizette (n.) A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
Mane :: Mane (n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse..
Blood-boltered :: Blood-boltered (a.) Having the hair matted with clotted blood.
Alpaca :: Alpaca (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton..
Aino :: Aino (n.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies..
Flock :: Flock (n.) A lock of wool or hair.
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