Hairname

• 1

  A surname.

hairnoun/ˈhɛə/

• 1

  A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

  • 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.
• 2

  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.

• 3

  Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp.

  • 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.
• 4

  biologynatural-scienceszoologyA 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.

• 5

  biologybotanynatural-sciencesA cellular 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).
• 6

  Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.

  • (uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
• 7

  engineeringfirearmsgovernmentA 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.

• 8

  Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

  • Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
  • I won by a hair.

hairverb/ˈhɛə/

• 1

  To remove the hair from.

  • 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.
• 2

  To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

  • 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.
• 3

  To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair

  • 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.
• 4

  To string the bow for a violin.

  • 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.