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▪ I. hair, n.|hɛə(r)|
Forms: α. 1 hǽr, hér, 2–3 hær, 2–5 her, 4–6 heer, 5–6 heere, here, (5 herre), 6 hear(e. β. 4–5 har, hare, 4 hor, 4–5 hore, 5 haar(e. γ. 5–6 heyr(e, 5–7 haire, hayre, heir(e, 6– hair.
[Com. Teutonic, OE. hǽr, hér = OFris. hêr, OS. hâr (MDu. haer, Du. haar), OHG. hâr, (Ger. haar), ON. hár (Sw. hår, Da. haar):—OTeut. *hæ̂rom; not known in Gothic. The α forms are native, from OE., WS. hǽr, Anglian hér; the β forms are immed. from ON. hár, which gave in ME. hâr in northern, and hôr in some north midland dialects. The later heyr, heire, hayre, hair, is not a normal repr. of ME. hêr, heer, the modern Eng. form of which would be (as in 16th c.) hear or here; it seems to be partly a northern spelling, but mainly due to assimilation to haire.]
I.
1. a. One of the numerous fine and generally cylindrical filaments that grow from the skin or integument of animals, esp. of most mammals, of which they form the characteristic coat; applied also to similar-looking filamentous outgrowths from the body of insects and other invertebrates, although these are generally of different structure.
a800Corpus Gloss. 1594 Pilus, her. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 236 An hær of eowrum heafde. a1225Leg. Kath. 2288 An her of hare fax. 1382Wyclif Matt. v. 36 Thou maist not make oon heer whyt, or blak. c1440Promp. Parv. 235/2 Heer (K., S., P. here), capillus. 1583Hollyband Campo di Fior 335 There will alwayes remaine some heare in the cliffe of the penne.
β1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5007 Na hare sal perishe, ne faile. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6961 He had a hare, þe whilk grewe On cuthberts heued. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 87 Not oone hore. 1483Cath. Angl. 175/2 An Hare, crinis.
γ1483Cath. Angl. 180/2 An Heire, pilus. Ibid. 184/1 A Heyr, crinis. 1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 97 b, A sword..hanging by a haire over his head. 1665Hooke Microgr. 158 The long hairs of Horses..seem Cylindrical. 1742Francis Horace Epist. ii. i. (R.) For hair by hair I pull the horse's tail. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague ii. v, And would not hurt a hair upon his head. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 70 A hair..is larger when wet than when dry.
b. The plural hairs was formerly used = the collective sense 2. [Cf. L. crines, Fr. les cheveux, Ger. die haare.] Now obs. or arch. as in grey hairs, which is also often taken not collectively.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark i. 6 Iohannes wæs ᵹescryd mid oluendes hærum. c1340Cursor M. 8079 (F.) Þaire browes ware growen side with heres. 1382Wyclif Luke vii. 38 And wypide with heeris of hir heed [R.V. 1881 the hair of her head]. ― John xi. 2 And wipte his feet with hir heeris [All 16–19th c. versions with her hair]. c1400Destr. Troy 3989 Gilde hores hade þat gay, godely to se. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 42/2 His old age or white heares. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. viii. 4 He..would..knocke his head, and rend his rugged heares. 1611Bible Gen. xliv. 29 Ye shall bring downe my gray haires with sorrow to the graue. 1715–20Pope Iliad x. 19 He rends his hairs in sacrifice to Jove. 1826H. N. Coleridge West Indies 230 Venerable for his white hairs.
c. fig. (= 2 b).
1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Hist. Ivstine Ff iv b, A blazing-starre with long haires appeared.
2. collect.
a. The aggregate of hairs growing on the skin of an animal: spec. that growing naturally upon the human head; also, hairs collectively or in the mass, as used for manufacturing purposes and the like.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 156 Gif hær to þicce sie. c1200Ormin 3208 Hiss claþ wass off ollfenntess hær. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12236 About hure hed hure her to-schaked. c1440Promp. Parv. 235/2 Heer fyrste growynge yn' mannys berde, lanugo. 1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 396 That they wasshe none heare, but benethe the brugge. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 19 Cussions stuffed with horse here..neetis here, deris here, and gotis here. 1584[see 8 o].
βa1300Cursor M. 3662 Esau es rugh wit har. c1300Havelok 235 Handes wringing, and drawing bi hor. a1400–50Alexander 5476 With haare to þaire heelis. c1440York Myst. xxxii. 21 Þe hore þat pillis my heed.
γc1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Egipciane 225 Hayre scho had, quhyt & streke. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 21 Kemmet was thair cleir hair. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 2 For fallinge of the heyre of the head. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 287 Which makes the hair stand on the heads of such as hear it related. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 17 Among the hairy caterpillars..the cast skin is covered with hair. 1777F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 169 All our hairs were done to the astonishment of all the company. 1816Byron Prisoner of Chillon i, My hair is grey, but not with years. 1870Tennyson Holy Grail 42 She..shore away..all that wealth of hair Which made a silken mat-work for her feet. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. vii. 238 Our hair and nails are..modifications of the external layer of the skin.
b. fig. Applied to the rays or ‘tresses’ of the sun, the tail of a comet, ‘leafy locks’ of a tree, etc.
1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido i. i, Yet shall the aged sun shed forth his hair. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Warres i. 8 A blazing star..shooting its fiery hair point blank against the Monastery. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 710 Like a Comet..That..from his horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and Warr. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 168 New fire..Shook its portentous hair beneath Heaven's frown. 1864Swinburne Atalanta 1268 The heavy hair of pines.
3. In plants: An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of an elongated cell, or a row of cells, usually soft and flexible like the hair of animals. In Bot. sometimes extended to other outgrowths of similar origin, as prickles, spore-capsules, etc.: = trichome.
1631Widdowes Nat. Philos. 35 The Quince..his fruit hath downie hayre. 1811Mrs. Ibbetson in Nicholson's Jrnl. XXX. 1 (title), On the Hairs of Plants. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. 354 The glandular hairs of ordinary plants..have the power..of absorbing both a solution and the vapour of ammonia. 1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. i. iii. 138 Hairs (Trichomes) is the term given in the higher plants to those outgrowths which arise only from the epidermis.
4. transf.
a. Applied to various things having the shape, consistency, or appearance of a hair or mass of hair: e.g. threadlike stamens or filaments.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. i. (655) The yellow heare which groweth in the middle of the Rose is called..in shops and of the Arabian physitions Anthera.
b. In names of plants having foliage fancifully likened to hair: as Isis hair, lady's hair, maidenhair, Venus' hair.
1551Turner Herbal i. B iij, It [Adianthum]..may be named in English Venus heyre or ladyes heyre. 1598Florio, Capelli di venere, the herbe Maiden-haire, Venus-haire, or our Ladies-haire. 1778Eng. Gaz. (ed. 2) s.v. Portland, Among the sea-weeds here is found a sort of shrub, not unlike coral. It is called Isis's Hair.
c. African hair or vegetable hair: see quots.
1851Offic. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1259 ‘Vegetable hair’, made of the leaves of the Algerian dwarf palm-tree..for the use of upholsterers. 1866Treas. Bot. 565 African Hair, the fibre of the leaves of the Palmetto, Chamærops humilis.
d. Applied to sertularian and other polyps which grow on oyster shells. (Cent. Dict.)
e. A spring mechanism which is freed by the hair-trigger, q.v.
1864in Webster.
5. Used as a type of what is of extremely small magnitude, value, or measure; a jot or tittle; an iota; the slightest thing; the least degree. See also to a hair in 8 c.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 334 Kynghod ne knyȝthod..Helpeth nouȝt to heueneward one heres ende. c1420Anturs of Arth. xlv, Him lakket no more to be slayne, Butte the brede of hore. 1529More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1223/1 The prayse had not bene the lesse of one heere. 1536Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Convocat. Wks. I. 48 They would not set an hair by the name, but for the thing. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 201 Neither is there one haires difference to choose. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. ii. 191 If I be false, or swerue a haire from truth. a1610Healey Cebes (1636) 159 Their estate is not an haire better then the others. 1808–25Jamieson, Hair, a very small portion or quantity; as a hair of meal, a few grains.
†6. Taken as the distinctive type of sort or kind; of one hair, of one colour and external quality; hence = sort, kind, nature; stamp, character. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden I. 365 With mylk of a cowe þat is of oon here [unius coloris]. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 244 Two notable knaues, both of a haire, and both cosen germaines to the deuill. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. i. 61 The Qualitie and Heire of our Attempt Brookes no diuision. 1600Tourneur Transf. Metamorph. Author to Bk. 6 Expect but flowts, for 'tis the haire of crime. a1625Fletcher Nice Valour i. i, A lady of my hair cannot want pitying.
7. A cloth, mat, or other fabric of hair used for various purposes in some trades, e.g. in hop-drying, extraction of oils, etc.; a haircloth.[Historically, the same word as haire, which, in losing the final e, has become identical in form with this.] 1485Inv. in Ripon Ch. Acts 371 Hayr pro ustrina. 1594Fairfax Inv. in Archæologia XLVIII. 130 On Seasterne of leade for barley and a kilne haire. 1848Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. ii. 568 The roof of the building coming on above much nearer the hair than in the modern kilns. Ibid. 572 A step-ladder to carry the green hops to lay on the hair. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 742/1 Measured quantities..of [oil-seed] meal are filled into woollen bags..Each bag is further placed within ‘hairs’, thick mats of horse-hair bound with leather.
II. Phrases and locutions.
8. a. against the hair: contrary to the direction in which an animal's hair naturally lies; contrary to the natural set of a thing; against the grain, inclination, or sentiment. b. in one's hair: (a) with the hair down; (b) bare-headed, without hat or wig; (c) being a nuisance or encumbrance, in one's way; usu. with get and have (orig. U.S.); so out of one's hair: out of one's way, not encumbering (see sense 8 q below). c. to a hair: to a nicety, with the utmost exactness. d. hair about the heels: a mark of under-bred horses; hence fig. of persons. †e. hair and hide, hair and hoof: every part, entirely, wholly. f. a hair in one's neck: a cause of trouble or annoyance. g. a hair of the dog that bit you, hair of the same dog (or wolf): see dog n.1 17 e. h. a hair to make a tether of: a slight pretext of which to make a great deal. i. to comb (a person's) hair (slang): see comb v. 3. j. to cut (or divide) the hair, to split hairs: to make fine or cavilling distinctions. k. to keep one's hair on (slang): to keep cool, not to lose one's head or get excited. l. to put up, turn up (one's) hair: said of a girl when she exchanges her floating hair or ringlets for the dressed hair of womanhood; to do or put up, to let down (one's) hair (i.e. in the toilet); also fig.; and of both men and women, to let (take) one's (back) hair down, to throw off reserve, to become confidential. m. to tear († rend) one's hair, i.e. as a symptom of passionate grief. n. not to turn a hair: lit. of a horse, not to show sweat by the roughening of his hair; fig. not to show any sign of being discomposed, ruffled, or affected by exertion. o. to get (a person) by the short hairs (formerly to get (a person, etc.) where the hair is short): to have complete control over. p. to make one's hair curl: see curl v.1 4. q. out of one's hair: opp. in one's hair (sense 8 b (c)). r. to lose one's hair (or to get one's hair off): to lose one's temper. s. In other expressions: see quots.
a.1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. iv, Ayenst the heere it tourneth. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 388 All went utterly against the hair with him. 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. iii. 40 If you should fight, you goe against the haire of your professions. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 63 [Cows] in the licking of themselves against the hair. a1627Middleton Mayor of Queenborough iii. ii, Books in women's hands are as much against the hair, methinks, as to see men wear stomachers, or night-rails. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 170 Something that crosses them, and goes against the hair. 1827Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. iii, He was a wee toustie when you rubbed him again the hair.
b.1533Cranmer in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 39 She in her here, my Lord of Suffolke beryng before herr the Crowne. 1606Holland Sueton. 143 Many a time he would shew her to his Souldiours in her haire. 1851Oregon Statesman (Oregon City) 30 Sept. 1/2, I shall depend on your honor..that you won't tell on me, cause if you did, I should have Hetty Gawkins in my hair in no time. 1859Thackeray Virgin. i, A large grave man in his own hair. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad I. xx. 193 What you learn here, you've got to know..or else you'll have one of these..spectacled..old professors in your hair. 1935S. Lewis It can't happen Here xiii. 123 Maybe there'll be a few Communist cells around here now, when Fascism begins to get into people's hair. 1936‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles x. 115 She got in my hair until I couldn't bear it another day. 1945M. Lowry Let. (1967) 49 We had them in our hair all summer. 1951C. Fry Sleep of Prisoners 4 You know what Absalom Said to the tree? ‘You're getting in my hair.’ 1957R. Watson-Watt Three Steps to Victory 255 His endurance of a bunch of untidy civilians constantly ‘in his hair’.
c.1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. i. 157 Pan. Youle remember your brothers excuse? Par. To a hayre. 1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 98 Distinguishing between good and bad to a hair. 1765Cowper Lett. 18 Oct., Three or four single men, who suit my temper to a hair. a1834Lamb Let. to Coleridge (L.), I could hit him off to a hair.
d.1882H. C. Merivale Faucit of B. III. ii. xxiii. 240 ‘Hair about the heels’, muttered the Count to himself.
e.c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6860 Þai were destroyed, bath hare and hyde. 1705Jean Irvine in Collect. Dying Test. (1806) 57 Poor people that would fain have strength to stand by hair and hoof of the truths of God. 1728P. Walker Peden Pref. (ed. 3) 28 None contending earnestly for Substance and Circumstances, Hair and Hoof of that dear-bought Testimony.
f.a1450Ratis Raving iii. 199 Think one the har is in thi nek. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxiii, An Bailie Grahame were to get word o' this..it wad be a sair hair in my neck!
h.1809Scott Let. to G. Ellis 3 Nov. in Lockhart, Those who wish to undermine it want but, according to our Scotch Proverb, a hair to make a tether of.
j.1652Sancroft Mod. Policies in D'Oyly Life (1821) II. 241 Machiavel cut the hair when he advised, not absolutely to disavow conscience, but to manage it with such a prudent neglect, as is scarce discernible from a tenderness. 1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Philo's Emb. Caius x. (1702) 901 To cut a Hair betwixt Satyr and Flattery. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 75 When Persons have a Mind to split Hairs, and to distinguish away the Christian Duties by a Word. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. ix. 316 [He] splits hairs with such surprising versatility.
k.1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius vi, Keep your hair on, my young friend. 1888Pall Mall G. 4 Aug. 1/2 This is the English way of doing things; they keep their hair on their heads. 1662[see put v.1 53 a]. 1850G. H. Lewes in Leader 7 Dec. 882/3, I am well aware that a little ranting and ‘letting down the back hair’ would have ‘told’ upon the audience with more noisy effect. 1921W. de la Mare Mem. Midget iii. 15 On my seventeenth birthday I put up my hair, and was confirmed. 1925N. Coward Vortex ii. 66 Helen and I have just had a grand heart-to-heart talk; we've undone our back hair. 1933Wodehouse Heavy Weather vii. 116 You needn't be coy, Beach... No reporters present. We can take our hair down and tell each other our right names. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 31 To let their hair down and be frank about The world. 1959Listener 15 Oct. 608/1 Mr. Fredric Warburg has reminded us of this in a volume of autobiography..in which he lets down his hair. 1967Guardian 3 Jan. 2/7 Lively young thing, I recall—but she'll have put her hair up by now. 1967C. Fremlin Prisoner's Base ix. 67 After you'd gone, Mother—he really let his back hair down. I was right, you know—he has been in prison. 1967B. Wootton In World I never Made i. 36 Before it became customary for women of all ages to wear their hair short, one of the marks of entering upon adult status was to put one's hair ‘up’.
m.1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, 14 b, This knight..sobbed, wept, and rent his heare. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. ii. 113 Teare my bright heire, and scratch my praised cheekes. 1715–20[see 1 b]. 1802Southey Inchcape Rock xvi, Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair And curst himself in his despair. 1855Thackeray Rose & Ring xix, Tearing her hair, crying and bemoaning herself.
n.1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. vii, Hot! he [a horse] had not turned a hair till we came to Walcot church. 1897Blackmore Dariel xviii, When I tried her with a lot of little dodges..she never turned a hair—as the sporting people say.
o.1872G. P. Burnham Mem. U.S. Secret Service 207 You've got me where the ha'r is short! What a cursed fool I have been. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad I. xx. 184, I had to tackle this miserable language... I've got it where the hair's short, I think. 1888Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 67 Then they'll rush in, and then we've got 'em by the short hairs! 1928Blackw. Mag. Feb. 150/1 Those Chinhwan really did seem to have got the rest of the world by the short hairs. 1930Sayers & Eustace Docts. in Case i. 25 She's evidently got her husband by the short hairs.
q.1902Kipling in Sat. Even. Post 6 Dec. 2/3 Get out o' my back-hair! 1949‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar x. 81 They wouldn't bother to look for him. They would be too relieved to have him out of their hair. 1959J. Masters Fandango Rock 173 He wouldn't want to interfere with her big moment, and he'd even managed to keep Peggy out of her hair. 1967Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. 18/2 Two vice presidents of the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co., the city's largest and most respected, said the bank paid Karafin and an associate {pstlg}12,000 a year ‘to keep him out of our hair’. 1971Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves xvi. 177 He wanted to get Florence out of his hair without actually telling her to look elsewhere for a mate.
r.c1920D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 120 ‘Nay—nay,’ said Lewis testily. ‘Don't get your hair off, Mrs. Goddard.’ 1931T. R. G. Lyell Slang 356 To lose one's hair, to lose one's temper. ‘Last night Jones quite lost his hair and made an awful fool of himself.’ 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. ii. 343 This is what one gets for being so nicely nonchalant, for saving people's faces, for not losing one's hair.
s.1579Fulke Refut. Rastell 755 The thinges proued..are but the heire and nayles of the masse, and not the substantiall partes thereof. 1584Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 13 Hee will..in the next Section tugge it in by the heare. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 80 As when one tells..a lie, to bid him take the haire from his lips.
III. attrib. and Comb.
9. a. attrib. Of, pertaining to, or connected with hair or a hair; made or consisting of hair, or of a texture like hair; as hair-bracelet, hair-broom, hair-bud, hair-bulb, hair-camlet, hair-cell, hair-chain, hair-club (club n. 6), hair-combing, hair-craft, hair-crape, hair-crêpe, hair-fashion, hair-felt, hair-fetishism, hair-fetishist, hair-fibre, hair-glove, hair-goods, hair-guard, hair-hat, hair-list, hair-merchant, hair-rope, hair-scale, hair-seating, hair-shaft, hair-sheath, hair-substance, hair-tint, hair-tip, hair-work, etc. Also hairbreadth, -cloth, etc.
1673[R. Leigh] Transpr. Reh. 138 The mode of wearing *hair-bracelets was scarce in use then.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Horse, Seams, Scabs, and *Hair-brokenness..on the inward Bow of his Knees.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Broom, We say, a birch-broom, a *hair-broom, a rush-broom.
1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 96 At the origin of each hair two parts are distinguished, the hair-sheath, and the germ or *hair-bud.
1876Duhring Dis. Skin 34 The root is found..to terminate in a bulb-shaped expansion, termed the *hair-bulb.
1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1107/4 A *Hair-Camblet Coat.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 158 *Hair Chains made to order. Send us the hair and we will braid. 1907N. Munro Daft Days xxx, The lockets are large and strong, and hair-chains much abound.
1774F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 288 If you are fond of *hair-clubs, you should see the Portuguese ladies' hair!
1940G. Greene Power & Glory ii. iv. 178 There was a hair-slide,..and a ball of *hair⁓combings.
1962John o' London's 4 Jan. 14/1 The *haircraft women..used to tour the Swedish countryside..selling their products.
1730Martin in Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 454 A Piece of Muslin, or thin *Hair-Crape.
1957V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & T.V. Make-Up xv. 203 *Hair crepe..may be human hair (Caucasian, Chinese or Indian), yak or a combination of any or all of these types.
1944Koestler in Horizon Mar. 162 There are..certain typical attitudes to life including clothing, *hair-fashion, drink and food.
1951C. Berg Unconscious Significance of Hair vii. 65 The universality of *hair fetishism may be brought into relief by this short instance of its negative aspect: A young woman patient of mine, who had become completely bald,..had an indescribable horror of her predicament being seen or..suspected by anyone. Ibid. 61 The *hair fetishist loves the women's hair but frequently has the impulse to despoil or ‘castrate’ it.
1954Koestler Invisible Writing xxiv. 284 The hair-fetishists who loiter in tube-stations with scissors in their pockets.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Hair-gloves, horsehair gloves used for rubbing the skin in bathing, etc.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i, With his decent silver watch..and its decent *hair-guard.
1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. v. lxiv. 291 British woollens, such as *hair-list drabs.
1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4098/4 William Taylor..*Hair-Merchant.
1867Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims vii. (1875) 179 Bringing it to a *hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.
1577in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 580 *Hair rope to stake the mill horse.
1863Bates Nat. Amazon v. (1864) 115 At the tip of the moth's body there is a brush of long *hair-scales resembling feathers.
1851Offc. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 535 Specimens of damask and striped *hair-seating, various colours.
1906Practitioner Nov. 692 Complete removal..of the *hair-shaft, together with the root-sheath or papilla. 1924Chambers's Jrnl. 668/2 The process flattens the almost spherical hairshaft and causes it to lean inwards.
1876Duhring Dis. Skin (1881) 36 The cortical substance, termed also *hair-substance, constitutes the bulk of the hair.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. xiv. (1593) 329 The cursed witch had smit Our highest *hairetips with hir wand.
1790Columbian Centinel 13 Oct. 36/4 The Artists' ability in Painting and *Hair-Work may be seen. 1959Times 7 Mar. 9/4 Hairwork jewelry was already popular in the late seventeenth century.
b. attrib. For or for the use of the hair; hair appointment, hair-caul, hair-clasp, hair-clip, hair-comb, hair-conditioner, hair-cream, hair-dye, hair-grip, hair-lacquer, hair-lotion, hair-net, hair-oil, hair-ornament, hair-pad, hair-preparation, hair-ribbon, hair-scissors, hair-slide (slide n. 6), hair-spray, hair-tonic, hair-wash. Also hair-band, -brush, -pin, etc.
1938D. du Maurier Rebecca xxiv. 402 Mrs. de Winter had a *hair appointment from twelve until one thirty.
1861C. W. King Ant. Gems (1866) 160 The ear-rings, necklaces, *hair-cauls, or fillets, of the female busts.
1894A. M. Earle Costume Colonial Times 121 *Hair⁓clasps. These ornaments for the hair—clasps to hold up the braided back hair—were advertised for sale in the New York newspapers and in the Connecticut Courant of January, 1791, and were worn until a simpler form of hair-dressing appeared about the year 1800.
1957J. Frame Owls do Cry 55 *Hairclips have been taken from them.
1837Thackeray Ravenswing i, Two brass *hair-combs set with glass rubies.
1951Catal. Exhibits, S. Bank Exhib., Festiv. Brit. 63/2 *Hair Conditioner.
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 491/1 *Hair Cream, for fixing the hair.
1843Ainsworth's Mag. III. 554 Invent a new *hair-dye expressly to accommodate his wife. 1933W. S. Maugham Sheppey i. 20, I don't believe there's another man in the business could 'ave sold Mr Bolton a bottle of 'air-dye.
1896Woman's Life III. 462/2 Hair-Bow (Fitted with New Safety *Hair-Grip). 1938‘J. Bell’ Port of London Murders vi. 91 The jug..contained..half a bootlace and two rusty hair grips. 1955Sci. News Let. 5 Mar. 150/3 Hair-grips and kirbi-grips are known in America as bobby pins.
1943Mod. Beauty Shop Sept. i. 104 (Advt.), A national publicity campaign is informing women everywhere that *hair lacquer is best applied with an ordinary toothbrush. 1978Zizmor & Foreman Superhair x. 90 Setting lotions..contain the same hair lacquers and plasticizers found in aerosol hair sprays.
1906T. D. Lister Chavasse's Advice to Mother (ed. 16) iii. 370 Avoid grease, pomatum, *hair lotions, and all abominations of that kind. 1962N. Marsh Hand in Glove vii. 221 Mr. Period's bedroom smelt of hair lotion.
1810E. Weeton Let. 25 Feb. in Jrnl. of Governess (1969) I. 233 A small phial of *hair oil. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Cranford xii. 174 The delusive lady was off upon..the merits of cosmetics and hair oils in general. 1870M. Bridgman Ro. Lynne II. v. 116 There were hair-washes, and hair-oils.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 183 Real Tortoise Shell *Hair Ornaments. 1967H. Porter in Coast to Coast 1965–6 178 They were not discussing the weather or hair-ornaments.
1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 779/5 *Hair Preparation. 1909in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xiii. 273 A handsome sales-room where are sold..Hair Preparations,..Hair nets, etc.
1790J. B. Moreton W. Ind. Isl. 98 Two hats..*hair-ribband and hair-dressing.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. ix. 398 They ought..to be named what kind of cisers they are, whether *Hair cisers..or Beard cisers.
1895Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. (Index), *Hair Slides. 1927Glasgow Herald 6 Oct. 11 Her hair-slide was found some distance from the body. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 166 A hair slide..is a clip for keeping the hair in place.
1959Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring & Summer 280/4 Glow *Hair Spray. 1966Vogue Nov. 81 Creamy Skin Perfume..and a hair spray. 1967W. Pine Protectors i. 10 He smelt the scent of her hair-spray.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Index, *Hair Tonic. 1897Hair tonic [see tonic n. 1]. 1938Auden & Isherwood On Frontier i. i. 28 Surely he's the man who does the hair-tonic advertisements?
1869D. G. Rossetti Let. (1965) II. 707 Certainly a *hair⁓wash would be the unkindest cut of all to bring against the Absalom of modern poetry. 1938H. Nicholson Let. 18 May (1966) 342 My hairwash comes from Floris.
c. objective and obj. genitive, as hair-buyer, hair-clasper, hair-clipper, hair-curler, hair-cutter, hair-dealer, hair-dryer, hair-frizzer, hair-monger, hair-remover, hair-seller, hair-stainer, hair-straightener, hair-waver, etc.; hair-clipping, hair-colouring, hair-conditioning, hair-curling, hair-cutting, hair-doing, hair-drying, hair-dyeing, hair-lifting, hair-nourishing, hair-picking, hair-raising, hair-straightening, hair-teasing, etc., vbl. ns. and/or ppl. adjs. Also hairdresser, -splitter, -splitting.
1721Lond. Gaz. No. 5921/4 Mary Penstone..*Hair-buyer.
1859Darwin Orig. Spec. vi. (1878) 153 Parasite mites..furnished with *hair-claspers.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 444/1 The very best *hair clipper in the market. 1930Daily Express 6 Nov. 19/3 A display of the latest type of electrical hair-clippers. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus iii. 58 The next thing was carefully to shave the area... This was done with an electric hair-clipper.
1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 11 Undergoing the process of *hair-clipping.
1959Punch 3 June 752/1 *Hair⁓colouring (modern usage for hair-dyeing) has become part of a woman's normal routine.
1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 70/2 *Hair-conditioning, external treatment designed to improve the condition of the hair by means of lotions, creams, massage and the application of steam to the head and hair.
1753in E. Singleton Social N.Y. under Georges (1902) 176 *Hair⁓curler and peruke-maker from London. 1872Rep. Comm. Patents 1870 (U.S.) II. 779/1 Hair-Curler... [A] combination, with a curling-iron tube [etc.]. 1929Bookman May 270/1 A woman's steel hair curlers. 1936Discovery Aug. 250/2 A long ivory rod with a pomegranate finial is probably a hair curler.
1694Lond. Gaz. No. 3036/4 Perriwig-maker and *Hair Cutter. 1889Monthly Packet Christmas 102, I suppose—there—ain't no *hair-cutters up in Heaven?
1832Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. I. 60/2 The announcement *‘Hair-cutting rooms’ in the window. 1850Dickens Dav. Copp. vii. 77 My recollections of..canings, rulerings, hair⁓cuttings, rainy Sundays. 1868‘Holme Lee’ B. Godfrey lii. 295 The hair-cutting parlour behind the shop.
1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4336/8 John Jesson..Grazier and *Hair-dealer.
1875C. M. Yonge My Young Alcides I. vii. 232 In the midst of my *hair-doing..Viola's running in to me.
1895Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 180/1 The Princess Patent *Hair Dryer and Burnisher. 1909Installation News III. 7 This Hair-Dryer works..by means of a small..electric fan. 1909Westm. Gaz. 13 Oct. 7/4 One ounce of hair, which she was drawing through the hair-dryer in her hands. 1961Times 26 Apr. 25/4 Domestic appliances such as..hair-driers.
1902M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp viii. 159 You dive into the sparkling river.., forgetting all about *hair-drying. 1906Chambers's Jrnl. 30 June 495/2 In my lady's room may be found electrically heated curling-irons and an ingenious hair-drying machine.
1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 96 The art of *hair-dyeing came into vogue.
1762Goldsm. Cit. W. lxxxviii, Language-masters, music-masters, *hair-frizzers.
1889‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 354, I flung out a *hair-lifting, soul-scorching thirteen-jointed insult.
1840T. A. Trollope Summer Brittany I. 324 The profit thus netted by these *hair-mongers, during a tour through the country.
1647Trapp Comm. Cor. xi. 14 Homer calleth the Greeks *hair-nourishing men.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 532/3 *Hair Remover. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 60/2 Hair removers..are backed by long-standing national advertising campaigns.
1713Lond. Gaz. No. 5154/4 William Bell..*Hair-seller.
1725Ibid. No. 6382/11 Charles Parker..*Hair-Stainer.
1898Today 5 Nov. 18/1 ‘The *Hair Straightener Company manufactures an instrument that will at once remove the curl from the most stubborn hair...’ It would be a waste of money..to advertise its wares in a climate like ours, where the moisture of the atmosphere does more *hair straightening than is conducive to feminine happiness. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 74/2 Hair-straightener, (1) A preparation to straighten frizzy or over-curly hair. (2) An implement that straightens frizzy hair. 1966B.B.C. Handbk. 25 Could we broadcast something about a new hair straightening cream?
1892Queen 27 Feb. in L. de Vries Vict. Advts. (1968) 42/1 Automatic *hair waver and curler..Price 2s. 6d. 1895Army & Navy Co-op Soc. Price List. 15 Sept. 180/2 Hair Wavers (Patent). 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 75/1 Hair-waver, (1) An implement such as waving irons by the use of which hair can be waved. (2) Any apparatus such as a permanent waving machine which heats the hair wound on curlers during the permanent waving process. (3) A person who waves hair.
d. instrumental, as hair-bottomed, hair-hung, hair-suspended adjs.e. similative and parasynthetic, as hair-coloured, hair-fissure, hair-pointed, hair-stripe, hair-shaped etc. adjs. Also hair-streak, -stroke, -worm.
1818Keats Let. 5 July (1958) I. 319 *Hair bottomed chairs. 1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1272/4 A *hair-coloured large Suit.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 138 A *hair fissure is perceptible..in the upper hieroglyphic.
1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 300 *Hair-hung, breeze-shaken, o'er the Gulph.
1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 376 Leaves egg-spear-shaped, *hair-pointed. 1832Lindley Introd. Bot. 385 Hair-pointed..terminating in a very fine, weak point; as the leaves of many mosses.
Ibid. 376 *Hair-shaped..the same as filiform, but more delicate, so as to resemble a hair.
1920Blackw. Mag. Aug. 161/2 They would, I understand, be described by tailors as ‘fine cachemire with *hair-stripe suitable for gents' morning wear’.
1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 398 Like the Sicilian's *hair-suspended sword.
1868Whittier Among the Hills i, The hangbird..His *hair-swung cradle straining.
10. Special Combs.: hair bag, (a) a bag made of hair or of very thin thread; (b) a bag in which human hair is kept; (c) (see quot. 1966); hair-ball (see quot. 1753); hair-bird, a popular name of the chipping-bird (Zonotrichia socialis) of North America; hair-bracket (see quot. 1867); † hair-bramble, the dewberry, Rubus cæsius; hair-brown (see quot.); † hair-bush, a bushy head of hair; hair-button, a button made with hair; hair-colour, (a) ? = hair-brown; (b) the colour of a person's hair; hair-compasses, compasses which can be regulated to the utmost nicety; see quot.; hair-cord, (a) a fabric of which the surface is covered with fine stripes so closely placed as to resemble hairs; (b) a cord made of human hair; hair crack Metallurgy = hair-line 7; hair-cut, haircut, (a) an act of cutting the hair by a hairdresser; (b) the shape or style in which the hair is cut; (c) a customer for a hair-cut; hair-drawn a., drawn out as fine as a hair; hair-eel, a kind of filiform worm inhabiting stagnant water; hair-follicle, the cylindrical depression in the skin from which a hair grows, extending through the corium to the subcutaneous connective tissue; hair-hygrometer, a hygrometer depending upon the expansion of hair when exposed to damp; hair-kiln, a hop kiln covered with a haircloth on which the hops are spread out to dry; hair-lead, a very thin lead used for spacing in printing; hair-lichen, an eruption attacking the roots of the hair; hair-locket, a locket for holding a lock of hair; hair-man, a man who dresses or makes up hair; hair-mattress, a mattress stuffed with hair; † hair-meal, a hair's breadth, the extent of a hair; hair-mole (-mold), a mole on the skin, having a hair or hairs on it; hair-moss, a moss of the genus Polytrichum; † hair-needle = hairpin; hair-net (see net n.1 3); so hair-netted a.; † hair-patch, haircloth; hair-pencil, a painter's brush made of camel's hair or the like; hair-piece, a length of false hair used to augment the natural hair; hair-plate, the plate at the back of a bloomery; hair-point Bot., an extension of the nerve at the top of some moss leaves, forming a fine tip; hair-pyrites, a synonym of millerite; hair-raising a., capable of causing the hair to ‘stand on end’ through fear or excitement; so hair-raiser; hair-raisingly adv.; hair-restorer, a preparation used to promote the growth of hair; hair-sac = hair-follicle; hair-salt [Ger. haarsalz,], a name given to alunogen; hair-seal, an eared seal of the family Otariidæ, sub-family Tricophocinæ; hair-slip, a place on a green hide where the grain has decayed causing the hair to slip; so hair-slipped a., marked with decayed places; † hair-slitting a., hair-splitting (fig.); hair-space, a very thin space used in printing; hair-spring, (a) the fine hair-like spring in a watch which serves to regulate the movement of the balance-wheel; (b) of a trap (perhaps spring n.3 rather than n.1); hair-stone [Ger. haarstein], a synonym of sagenite; hair-style, a particular way of dressing the hair; hence hair-styling vbl. n.; hair-stylist; † hair-tail, a name given to fishes of the family Trichiuridæ, esp. Trichiurus lepturus; hair-tail worm = hair-eel; hair-tidy, a tidy [tidy n. c] for hair-combings; hair-trim [trim n. 3 d]; hair-trunk, a trunk covered with skin retaining the hair; hair-tuft (see quots.); † hair-weed, a conferva.
1712Mortimer Husb. II. 2 Haws put in a *Hair-bag, and soaked in Water all Winter..will come up the first Year. 1723J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. §136 To make cider..stamp your Apples, press them in a Hair Bag. 1747H. Glasse Art of Cookery vi. 65 Strain it through a coarse Hair-bag..then strain it through a Hair-sieve. 1824J. Morier Adv. Hajji Baba xvii. 188 The different operations of rubbing with the hand, and of the friction with the hair bag. 1911R. G. Anderson in 4th Rep. Wellcome Tropical Res. Lab. B. 253 By Blood⁓brotherhood is meant a mutual coalition... The rite..consists in incising the other's forehead..drinking the outflow of blood, smearing an adjacent lock of hair in its residue, and cutting this off to keep..in a neatly woven hair bag as a charm. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 69/2 Hair-bag,..a bag to hold the queue of a bag-wig.
1712J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northampt. vii. 451 In the Stomachs of these..the *Hair-Balls are compos'd. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Hair-balls, masses of hair of different shapes and sizes found in the stomachs of cows, oxen, calves, deer, and other animals.
1869J. Burroughs in Galaxy Mag. Aug., The social-sparrow, alias ‘*hair-bird’, alias ‘red-headed chipping-bird’, is the smallest of the sparrows.
1823Crabb Technol. Dict., *Hair-bracket. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hair-bracket, the moulding at the back of the figure-head.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. iv. 661 The Bramble is of two sortes..the great and the smal..The lesser berie is called..a *heare Bramble..The fruite is called a Dewberie.
1850Ansted Elem. Course, *Hair brown, a colour formed of brown with a little yellow and grey.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Chevelure, the *haire bush. 1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 65 Wee ruffled his hearebush.
1593Acc. Bk. W. Wray in Antiquary XXXII. 371, iiij grose of *haire bottonnes. 1785Boswell Tour Hebrides i, He wore a full suit of plain brown clothes, with twisted hair-buttons of the same colour.
1615Markham Eng. Housew. (1660) 123 If you will dye your wool of a bright *haire colour. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 36 Pure hair colour dapled with green. Ibid. 62 Cockroaches..of a pure hair-colour. 1885J. Beddoe Races of Brit. xiii. 144 The division of hair-colours..into red, fair, brown, dark, and black. 1906Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. XXXVI. 325 Such statistics as those..of eye colour, hair colour, as in many anthropological works. 1972Woman 22 Jan. 17 Do you know that British women spend a staggering {pstlg}10 million a year on changing their hair colour?
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Compasses, *Hair Compasses, so contrived with-in side, as to take an extent to a hair's breadth. 1807T. Young Lect. Nat. Philos. I. x. 101 When great accuracy is required, hair compasses may be employed, having a joint with a spring in one of the legs which is bent a little by means of a fine screw.
1866in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xii. 133, 1 White *hair cord dressing jacket. 1899T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. 46 ‘This is her hair,’ he said, taking the hair⁓cord between his fingers and kissing it. 1920L. Harmuth Dict. Textiles (ed. 2), Haircord, English dress muslin made with thick warp cords. 1923Weekly Dispatch 18 Feb. 12 (Advt.), Useful Shirt in White Haircord Voile. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 34/1 For a..hair cord carpet, herring-bone the raw edges on the underside. 1960Textile Terms & Defs. (ed. 4) 76 Haircord carpet, a carpet produced by weaving over unbladed wires.
1896Trans. Inst. Naval Archit. XXXVII. 215 A 10 in. steel shaft..had shown fine *hair cracks on the surface near the propeller. 1925Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXI. 113 A defect known as snow-flakes or flakes (America), hair-cracks or hair-lines (Great Britain), Flocken (Germany), and cassures ligneuses (France), has received much attention among manufacturers and inspectors of alloy steel forgings. 1959J. H. Thornley Foundation Design & Pract. xiii. 103/2 The test for hair cracks consists merely of cleaning the pile and washing or immersing it in a tinted fluid.
1899Westm. Gaz. 5 Dec. 8/1 The trade in Pretoria was kept very busy for about ten days giving the burghers a commando *hair-cut. 1900Ibid. 22 Jan. 2/3 He won mainly on his promise that he would reform the city barber into charging two dollars fifty cents for a hair-cut. 1904Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 4/7 The barbers of Bethlehem, Pa., have raised the price of haircuts from sevenpence to tenpence. 1923Glasgow Herald 10 Feb. 8/8 Commenting upon how few of his customers in recent days had been ‘haircuts’, he remarked... ‘The change of the moon always brings more haircuts out.’ 1924R. Macaulay Orphan Island xviii. §2. 241 They were interrupted by Mr. Albert Edward Smith, who had come for a shave and a hair-cut.
1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1304 Its lengthy and *hair-drawn dialectics.
1895Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable, *Hair Eels, these filiform worms belong to the species Gordius aquaticus, found in stagnant pools.
1838Penny Cycl. XII. 9/1 Into each *hair-follicle..there open the ducts of one or two little glands.
1878Nares Polar Sea I. xii. 319 The *hair-hygrometer continues to work in an unsatisfactory manner.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 754 Where *hair kilns are in use..charcoal is had recourse to.
1888Jacobi Printer's Vocab., *Hair leads, very thin leads—mostly sixteen to a pica—rarely used nowadays.
1854–67C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol., *Hair Lichen, an eruption confined to the roots of the hair, followed, after ten days, by desquamation.
1679Lond. Gaz. No. 1379/4 A *Hair Locket, set round with small Table Diamonds.
1689Ibid. No. 2477/4 He took her from a *Hair-man upon the Highway. 1723Ibid. No. 6170/9 James Mathewson..Hairman.
1836in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. (1892) 2nd Ser. VII. 276 Mine an upper berth; a *hair mattress to lie on. 1863J. Nash Brit. Pat. 2681, I..take an ordinary wool, hair, or other mattrass, and fasten it..to the top of the spring frame. 1931Times 16 Mar. 2/7 Box-springs, hair mattresses.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. ii. §38 Whan the shadwe of the pyn entreth any-thyng with-in the cercle of thi plate an *her-mele.
1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1496/4 A *hair mold on his left Cheek.
1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 311 The undulating *Hair-moss..is found on most shady banks.
1865M. Eyre Lady's Walks xv. 185 Quilts, mittens, *hair-nets, and other articles knitted, of Pyrenean wool. 1873Young Englishwoman Jan. 38/2 Hair nets..may either be worked with coloured silk or, if intended for night wear, with white cotton. 1958C. Fremlin Hours before Dawn ii. 22 The wisps of untidy grey hair protruding from her hairnet.
1950J. Cannan Murder Included ii. 21 Elizabeth Hudson,..high- collared, *hair-netted. 1951E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vi. 164 The hair-netted lady at the next table.
c1611Chapman Iliad xiv. Comm., Stuff nothing so substantial, but such gross sowtege or *hair-patch as every goose may eat oats through. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. iv. (1686) 38 Take an Hair-patch, and rub his Body all over.
1763Gentl. Mag. XXXIII. 83/2 Let the spots be gently rubbed with a *hair pencil. 1775Phil. Treas. LXV. 243 It may..be cleansed by wiping it with a soft hair-pencil. 1965Listener 26 Aug. 316/2 Modelling, carving and engraving, prowess with the inked hair⁓pencil: these complete the specifically aesthetic skills of the Chinese.
1939Time 25 Dec. 2/3 He wears a toupee (*hairpiece or divot in Hollywood) for cinema and most public appearances. 1957V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & T.V. Make-Up vi. 78 Incidentally, a wig covers not only the hair line, but the entire area of the hair on the head, while hairpieces are used to supplement the natural hair growth. 1969Times 20 Mar. 27/1 The man sitting next to you may be wearing a hairpiece.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss. s.v. Bloomary, The sides are iron plates, the *hair-plate at the back, the cinder-plate at the front, etc.
1818Hooker & Taylor Muscologia Brit. 25 P[olytrichum] juniperinum... Except in the want of the *hair-points to the leaves..we can find no essential difference between this and the preceding species [sc. P[olytrichum] piliferum]. 1893H. G. Jameson Illustr. Guide Brit. Mosses 10 The single nerve [of the leaf] may either cease below..or in..the apex, or may run out beyond it so as to be excurrent, forming a mucro.., cusp.., or hair-point. 1966Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 74/2 In the form [of Grimmia apocarpa] shown here the leaves are tinged reddish-brown and have white ‘hair points’.
1805R. Jameson Syst. Min. II. 263 *Hair- or Capillary-Pyrites.
1897Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 3/2 The writer being put on his mettle merely to throw in what an American has felicitously called *‘hair-raisers’ by the way. 1900Daily News 24 Apr. 7/5 The hair-raising, long, steep descent of Box Hill. 1902Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 3/4 Marvellous yarns of hair-raising perils. 1928Daily Express 17 Aug. 9/1 There were a few hair-raising mishaps, but nobody was hurt. 1957Times 30 Aug. 8/6 A runaway 70-ton Army transporter..careered downhill into the village of Carlton, Notts., to-day at 60 m.p.h. after its brakes had failed... ‘It was a hair-raising experience..’ said Driver Lee. 1960Times 15 Feb. 15/2 England had left it hair-raisingly late, but it was enough.
1873Young Englishwoman Aug. 414/1 Helena has heard ‘*hair restorers’ so much condemned. 1893Leland Mem. II. 266 The search for a good hair-restorer..is as vain as the search for happiness.
1866Huxley Phys. xii. 292 A hair..is at first wholly enclosed in a kind of bag, the *hair sac.
1795Schmeisser Syst. Min. I. 270 *Hair salt..is of a silvery-white color.
1824Pettigrew Papers Shipping & Commercial List 31 July (D.A.E.), About 500 *hair Seal Skins,..were sold by auction. 1846R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. vi. 56 A hair-seal cap and a frock-coat. 1865Boyd Swartzen 106 Greenland hair-seal, South-Sea fur-seal. 1894Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. II. 107 The fur-seals are, of course, far more valuable commercially than the hair-seals.
1903L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 265 Grading and Classification of Green Calf-Skins... Second, regular No. 1... Scores are allowed in this grade, but there must be no holes, *hair slips or other bad imperfections. Ibid., Third, good No. 2. This term designates those skins that are slightly hair slipped.
1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 139 Our *hair-slitting and irrefragable Doctor.
1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 455/1 The smallest kind, which are called, from their extreme thinness, *hair-spaces.
1707Mortimer Husb. xi. 244 With the small Stick (gently put into the hole to stop the knot of the *Hair-spring,..) place it in the Earth in the Moles passage. 1830Kater & Lardn. Mech. xiv. 195 A spiral spring..called a hair spring. 1854Thoreau Walden 37 With consummate skill he has set his trap with a hair springe..and then..got his own leg into it. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. II. 1049 Hair-springs are made of fine steel, which comes upon spools like thread.
1913Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 91/1 Mme. Fried is prepared to show all of the latest..*Hair Styles. 1944M. Laski Love on Supertax ix. 84 She longed for some new perfume, a new hair⁓style. 1963V. Nabokov Gift ii. 139 He had a remarkable hair style that was also somehow indecent.
1936Harper's Bazaar Mar. 88/4 They specialise particularly in *‘Hair Styling’, which of course means designing coiffures to fit the individual, as well as carrying them out. 1960Guardian 19 Apr. 2/5 The Princess had led the world's hair-styling fashion. She had been ‘an ambassadress’ of British hair-styling.
1935‘Madame Louise’ Mod. Hair Cutting & Styling 15 A *hair stylist is a hairdresser who has the artistic ability to suggest and create a new hair fashion. 1950‘P. Quentin’ Follower i. 6 One of her clients at Maurice's, where she worked as a hair-stylist.
1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 354 The ribbon-fishes..some of these, as the *hair-tail..are of large size. 1880Gunther Fishes 436 The ‘Hair-tails’ belong to the tropical marine fauna. 1854Mayne Expos. Lex., Hair-Tail Worm, common name for the Gordius aquaticus.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 1164 Silver-mounted *Hair Tidy. 1918‘K. Mansfield’ Prelude 11 She..found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it. 1935Punch 15 May 592/1 The whole affair of the rejection of Miss Rinse's beaded hair-tidy from our Institute Exhibition has been most unfortunate. 1960B. Snook Eng. Hist. Embroidery 116 It suddenly became genteel to embroider..hair tidies, pin-cushions, spectacle and comb cases and what-nots.
1957S. Beckett All that Fall 30 *Hairtrims and shaves.
1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2832/4 A yellow *Hair Trunk Mail. 1881Poynter Among Hills I. 311 Her feet planted on her little hair-trunk in front.
1905E. Phillpotts Secret Woman i. ii. 21 The *hair-tufts of his eyebrows had been tawny, but they were now turning. 1923G. A. Gaskell Dict. Sacred Lang. 335/2 Hair tuft between the eyebrows of Buddha: An emblem of spiritual truth within the soul.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., *Hair-weed, conferva, in botany, the name of a genus of mosses.
▸ hair wrap n. a plait or lock of hair which has been tightly wrapped in (usually coloured) thread (cf. earlier hair wrapping n. at Additions).
1990Washington Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. e7 ‘Braids, Cornrows, Dreadlocks and *Hair Wraps’, a workshop on African-American hair braiding. 1998Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 8 Nov. Hair wraps and beads:..the craze..entailed wrapping a fine piece of hair with coloured threads and beads.
▸ hair wrapping n. a hairstyling technique in which one or more thin plaits or locks of hair are wrapped tightly in (esp. coloured) thread.
1979Essence July 74/1 Hair wrapping is an art form anyone can learn... Short or long hair can be wrapped using black thread, gold cording or wool strips. 1990J. C. Peters Braids, Cornrows, Dreadlocks, & Hair Wraps 2 Braiding, and hair-wrapping to a lesser extent, continued to be practiced in its most basic forms for as long as there have been African Americans, nearly five hundred years. 1999Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 22 Sept. b3 An on-site caricaturist, hair wrapping and wooden pumpkin painting.
▪ II. hair, v.
[f. prec. n.]
Hence hairing vbl. n.
†1. trans. (?) To edge with hair or fur. Sc. Obs.
1539Inv. R. Wardrobe (1815) 37 (Jam.) Lynit with quhit furring, and harit with martrikis sabill. 1578Ibid. 219 (Jam.) Ane..gowne..pasmentit with silver and a haring of martrikkes.
2. trans. To free from hair; to depilate.
1802–14C. Findlater Agric. Surv. Peebles 81 (Jam.) This practice..was called hairing the butter. 1824Mech. Mag. No. 30. 32 By his method, raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than 30 hours. 1888Milit. Engineer. I. ii. 55 The hair is removed with a semi-circular knife, called a hairing-knife.
3. intr.
a. ‘To produce or grow hair.’ (Cent. Dict.)
b. ‘To produce hair-like fibres: said of maple-sirup when boiled so low as to string out when dripped from a spoon.’ (Funk.)
4. trans. To fit hairs to (a violin-bow).
1898H. R. Haweis Old Violins 116 Most violinists prefer to pay a small sum and get their bows haired.
▪ III. hair
obs. form of hare, here n., hoar. |