HAIR
\hˈe͡ə], \hˈeə], \h_ˈeə]\
Definitions of HAIR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"
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any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"
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dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"
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a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"
By Princeton University
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filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"
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a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost by a hair"
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any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"
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dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
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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.
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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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A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
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A haircloth.
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Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
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A haircloth.
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Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
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(human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
By Noah Webster.
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A modification of the epidermis found on almost every surface of the body except the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and the glans penis. It is a filament of KERATIN consisting of a shaft, a root, and a point.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One of the small filaments growing out of the skin of any animal; the mass of such threadlike growth; minute fibers on the surface of plants.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A filament growing from the skin of an animal: the whole mass of hairs which forms a covering for the head or the whole body: (bot.) minute hair-like processes on the cuticle of plants: anything very small and fine.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A threadlike or filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis of animals; any outgrowth of the epidermis consisting of one or more cells, and very varied in shape.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A conical, corneous substance, the free portion or shaft, scapus, of which issues to a greater or less distance from the skin, to the tissue of which it adheres by a bulb, Bulbus pili, seated in a hair follicle-folliculus pili-made by an inversion of the integument, the epidermis of which forms a "root sheath," vagina pili. At the base of the hair follicle, there is a small papilla, well supplied with blood-vessels and nerves, Papilla pili; at times called, but improperly, Pulpa seu Blastema pili. The hair receives various names in different parts-as Beard, Cilia, Eyebrows, Hair of the head, ( Capilli,) &c
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A corneous outgrowth from the epidermis, consisting of a long, fine, tubular, elastic body, growing from a follicle of the skin and containing a medullary substance the hair pith, filling a narrow, irregular cavity in the center of the hair. Its shaft and a portion of its root are covered by an epidermis consisting of a thin lamella of flattened horny cells, overlapping each other distally.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, German] A small filament growing from a bulbous root in the skin of an animal;—a collection or mass of such serving as a covering to the skin: hair of the head; fur; down; bristles;—a species of pubescence on plants;—any thing small or fine; exact value or distance;—course; grain; direction.
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