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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hair \Hair\ (h[^a]r), n. [OE. her, heer, h[ae]r, AS. h[=ae]r; akin to OFries. h[=e]r, D. & G. haar, OHG. & Icel. h[=a]r, Dan. haar, Sw. h[*a]r; cf. Lith. kasa.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in vertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. [1913 Webster] Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster] 5. (Bot.) 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}). [1913 Webster] 6. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. [1913 Webster] 7. A haircloth. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 8. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. [1913 Webster] Note: Hairs is often used adjectively or in combination; as, hairbrush or hair brush, hair dye, hair oil, hairpin, hair powder, a brush, a dye, etc., for the hair. [1913 Webster] {Against the hair}, in a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain. [Obs.] "You go against the hair of your professions." --Shak. {Hair bracket} (Ship Carp.), a molding which comes in at the back of, or runs aft from, the figurehead. {Hair cells} (Anat.), cells with hairlike processes in the sensory epithelium of certain parts of the internal ear. {Hair compass}, {Hair divider}, a compass or divider capable of delicate adjustment by means of a screw. {Hair glove}, a glove of horsehair for rubbing the skin. {Hair lace}, a netted fillet for tying up the hair of the head. --Swift. {Hair line}, a line made of hair; a very slender line. {Hair moth} (Zool.), any moth which destroys goods made of hair, esp. {Tinea biselliella}. {Hair pencil}, a brush or pencil made of fine hair, for painting; -- generally called by the name of the hair used; as, a camel's hair pencil, a sable's hair pencil, etc. {Hair plate}, an iron plate forming the back of the hearth of a bloomery fire. {Hair powder}, a white perfumed powder, as of flour or starch, formerly much used for sprinkling on the hair of the head, or on wigs. {Hair seal} (Zool.), any one of several species of eared seals which do not produce fur; a sea lion. {Hair seating}, haircloth for seats of chairs, etc. {Hair shirt}, a shirt, or a band for the loins, made of horsehair, and worn as a penance. {Hair sieve}, a strainer with a haircloth bottom. {Hair snake}. See {Gordius}. {Hair space} (Printing), the thinnest metal space used in lines of type. {Hair stroke}, a delicate stroke in writing. {Hair trigger}, a trigger so constructed as to discharge a firearm by a very slight pressure, as by the touch of a hair. --Farrow. {Not worth a hair}, of no value. {To a hair}, with the nicest distinction. {To split hairs}, to make distinctions of useless nicety. [1913 Webster] hairball From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: hair n 1: a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells" 2: a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker" [syn: {hair's-breadth}, {hairsbreadth}, {hair}, {whisker}] 3: filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" [syn: {hair}, {fuzz}, {tomentum}] 4: any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup" [syn: {hair}, {pilus}] 5: cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments [syn: {haircloth}, {hair}] 6: a filamentous projection or process on an organism From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: hair n. [back-formation from {hairy}] The complications that make something hairy. ?Decoding {TECO} commands requires a certain amount of hair.? Often seen in the phrase infinite hair, which connotes extreme complexity. Also in hairiferous (tending to promote hair growth): ?GNUMACS elisp encourages lusers to write complex editing modes.? ?Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right.? (or just: ?Hair squared!?)