hair
The definition of a hair is a fine, thread-like strand that grows on people and animals.
(noun)- An example of hair is the stuff you have growing from the top of your head and that you lose if you go bald.
- An example of hair is the stuff your dog sheds.
See hair in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- any of the fine, threadlike outgrowths from the skin of an animal or human being
- a growth of these; esp.,
- the growth covering the human head
- the growth covering all or part of the skin of most mammals
- material woven from hair
- an extremely small space, margin, degree, etc.: to miss by a hair
- Bot. a threadlike growth on a plant; trichome
Origin: ME here < OE hær (akin to Ger haar, Frank *harja) & < ? OFr haire, hair shirt < Frank *harja < IE base *er(s)-, to bristle
adjective
- made of or with hair
- for the care of the hair: hair tonic
Related Forms:
- hairlike adjective
See hair in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. Any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.b. A growth of such filaments, as that forming the coat of an animal or covering the scalp of a human.
- A filamentous projection or bristle similar to a hair, such as a seta of an arthropod or an epidermal process of a plant.
- Fabric made from the hair of certain animals: a coat of alpaca hair.
- a. A minute distance or narrow margin: won by a hair.b. A precise or exact degree: calibrated to a hair.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English her
Origin: , from Old English hǣr
.See hair in Ologies
Hair
1. a loss of hair, feathers, or wool.
2. baldness. —alopecic, adj.
chaetophobia
an abnormal fear of hair.
crinosity
the state of being hairy. —crinous, adj.
electrology
the use of electrolysis for removing moles, warts, or excess hair. —electrologist, n.
1. a condition of shaggy hairiness.
2. Biology. the state of being covered “with long, stiff hairs. —hirsute, adj.
the state or quality of being covered with small spines or bristles. —hispid, adj.
a condition of excessive hairiness either all over the body or covering a particular part.
Leiotrichi
people with smooth hair; a division of mankind characterized by people with such hair. Cf. Ulotrichi. —Leiotrichan, adj.
the loss of hair, especially of the eyelashes, as a result of disease.
madisterium
a surgical instrument for pulling out hairs.
melanosity
darkness or blackness of eyes, hair, or complexion.
an excessive hairiness; furriness. —pilose, adj.
falling out of the hair.
a condition of splitting of the hair.
1. the act or process of cutting the hair, especially as a religious rite or custom.
2. the shaved part of the head, usually the crown, of a member of a religious order. —tonsorial, adj.
a condition in which the hair grows inward, especially the eyelashes.
trichoanesthesia
Medicine. a loss of hair sensibility.
a hairball.
a condition of extreme brittleness of the hair, often following an illness.
Medicine. the scientific study of hair and its diseases. —trichologist, n.
trichoma
a condition of the hair in which it is matted or crusted.
trichomania
an obsession with hair.
any disease of the hair caused by a fungus.
Medicine. any disease of the hair. —trichopathic, adj.
the practice of eating hair.
trichorrhexomania
a mania for pinching off one’s hair.
1. Medicine. any disease or abnormal growth of the hair.
2. a heavy growth of hair.
Medicine. an abnormal desire to pull out one’s own hair, especially by delirious patients. Also called trichologia.
Ulotrichi
people with woolly, tightly curled, or crisp hair; a division of mankind characterized by people with such hair. Cf. Leiotrichi. —ulotrichous, adj.
the condition or quality of being covered with long, soft hairs, as certain plants, or hairlike appendages, as certain of the membranes of the body. —villous, adj.
a person with light-colored hair and fair complexion. —xanthochroid, xanthochroous, adj.
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