Hair

Hair - Other Definitions

• (n.) 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.
  
  
• (n.) 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.
  
  
• (n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
  
  
• (n.) 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.
  
  
• (n.) 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).
  
  
• (n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
  
  
• (n.) A haircloth.
  
  
• (n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
  
  
• grass () A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.