hair

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

hairs

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

hair

past (v2)

haired

past participle (v3)

haired

present participle

hairing

3rd person singular

hairs

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 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. 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.

   • Both Tom and Mary have dyed their hair.
   • I want to dye my hair black.
   • My hair is too long.

3. 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.

4. 4.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.

   • Both Tom and Mary have dyed their hair.
   • I want to dye my hair black.
   • My hair is too long.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.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.
   • To hair a bow, a hank of horse hair (A) is selected and combed so that all hairs are parallel to each other.

2. 2.To remove the hair from.

   • By his method raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than thirty hours.

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

   • He has haired up and healed over.
   • The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.
   • It has haired over nicely. There are no bad results from it in any way whatever that I can detect.

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

   • So they did three different sculptures and then ran the masks and painted them, haired them, and sent them out to us.
   • The winter had haired them like llamas, the sleet had worked no hardship, as a horse paws to the grass, and any concern for the outside saddle stock was needless.
   • 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.

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