Hair Definition
hâr
noun
Any of the fine, threadlike outgrowths from the skin of an animal or human being.
Webster's New World
A growth of these.
Webster's New World
A filamentous projection or bristle similar to a hair, such as a seta of an arthropod or an epidermal process of a plant.
American Heritage Medicine
A threadlike growth on a plant; trichome.
Webster's New World
Material woven from hair.
Webster's New World
adjective
Made of or with hair.
Webster's New World
For the care of the hair.
Hair tonic.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Hair
Noun
Singular:
hairPlural:
hairsIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hair
- get in someone's hair
- hair of the dog (that bit one)
- have (or get) by the short hairs
- let one's hair down
- make someone's hair stand on end
- not turn a hair
- split hairs
- to a hair
Origin of Hair
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From Middle English hēr, heer, hær, from Old English her, hǣr , from Proto-Germanic *hērą. Compare West Frisian hier, Dutch haar, German Haar, Swedish hår, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”). Compare Middle Irish carrach (“scurfy, mangy”), Albanian qere (“hair disease, ringworm, baldness”), Lithuanian šerys (“bristle, animal hair”), Russian шерсть (šerst’, “wool”), Sanskrit कपुच्छल (kapucchala, “napehair, shorthairs”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English her from Old English hǣr
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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