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Definition of hair:
- ( human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
- A haircloth.
- 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 spring device used in a hair- trigger firearm.
- 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).
- Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
- One the above- mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
- The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
Synonyms:
filament, sensory hair, fur, taste, thatch, hairsbreadth, strand, breath, vibrissa, bull, shade, whiff, trace, whiskers, splinter, blur, bit, hair's-breadth, down, bristle, fiber, wool, whisper, pig, sliver, haircloth, wig, big, tomentum, shock, tress, ghost, thread, mane, beard, suspicion, whisker, nose, dash, tinge, pilus, copper, semblance, touch, cop, intimation, show, suggestion, tomentum cerebri, hairbreadth, shadow, hint, fluff, streak, fuzz.