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单词 hair
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hairn.

Brit. /hɛː/, U.S. /hɛ(ə)r/
Forms: α. Old English hǽr, hér, Middle English hær, Middle English her, Middle English–1500s heer, Middle English–1500s heere, here, (Middle English herre), 1500s hear(e. β. Middle English har, hare, Middle English hor, Middle English hore, Middle English haar(e. γ. Middle English–1500s heyr(e, Middle English–1600s haire, hayre, heir(e, 1500s– hair.
Etymology: Common Germanic, Old English hǽr, hér = Old Frisian hêr , Old Saxon hâr (Middle Dutch haer , Dutch haar ), Old High German hâr , (German haar ), Old Norse hár (Swedish hår , Danish haar ) < Germanic *hæ̂rom ; not known in Gothic. The α forms are native, < Old English, West Saxon hǽr , Anglian hér ; the β forms are immediately from Old Norse hár , which gave in Middle English hâr in northern, and hôr in some north midland dialects. The later heyr , heire , hayre , hair , is not a normal representation of Middle English hêr , heer , the modern English form of which would be (as in 16th cent.) hear or here ; it seems to be partly a northern spelling, but mainly due to assimilation to haire n.
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.
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the world > life > the body > hair > [noun] > a hair
haira800
crinet1573
rib1864
strand1870
a800 Corpus Gloss. 1594 Pilus, her.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 236 An hær of eowrum heafde.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 2288 An her of hare fax.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. v. 36 Thou maist not make oon heer whyt, or blak.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 235/2 Heer (K., S., P. here), capillus.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 335 There will alwayes remaine some heare in the cliffe of the penne.
β. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5007 Na hare sal perishe, ne faile.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6961 He had a hare, þe whilk grewe On cuthberts heued.1483 Cath. Angl. 175/2 An Hare, crinis.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 111 Not oone hore Shall pas by this way.γ. 1483 Cath. Angl. 180/2 An Heire, pilus.1483 Cath. Angl. 184/1 A Heyr, crinis.1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 97 b A sword..hanging by a haire over his head.1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 158 The long hairs of Horses..seem Cylindrical.1742 P. Francis tr. Horace Epist. ii. i. (R.) For hair by hair I pull the horse's tail.1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. v And would not hurt a hair upon his head.1878 T. H. Huxley Physiogr. (ed. 2) 70 A hair..is larger when wet than when dry.
b. The plural hairs was formerly used = the collective sense 2 [Compare Latin crines, French les cheveux, German die haare.] Now obsolete or archaic as in grey hairs, which is also often taken not collectively.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [noun]
lockeOE
faxc900
hairc1000
hairc1000
headOE
topc1275
toppingc1400
peruke1548
fleece1577
crine1581
head of hair1587
poll1603
a fell of haira1616
thatcha1634
maidenhair1648
chevelure1652
wool1697
toupet1834
nob-thatch1846
barnet1857
toss1946
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) i. 6 Iohannes wæs gescryd mid oluendes hærum.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xi. 2 Mary..anoyntide the Lord with oynement, and wipte his feet with hir heeris.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke vii. 38 Sche..bigan to moiste his feet with teeris, and wypide with heeris of hir heed [1881 R.V. the hair of her head].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 8079 Þaire browes ware growen side with heres.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3989 Gilde hores hade þat gay, godely to se.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 70/2 His olde age or white heares.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. G7 He..would..Knocke his head, and rend his rugged heares . View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xliv. 29 Ye shall bring downe my gray haires with sorrow to the graue. View more context for this quotation
1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. x. 19 He rends his Hairs, in sacrifice to Jove.
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 230 Venerable for his white hairs.
c. figurative (= sense 2b).
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1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ff ivv A blazing-starre with long haires appeared.
2. collective.
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.
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the world > life > the body > hair > [noun]
hairc1000
wire1576
strummel1725
crowning glory1780
suit1803
floss1846
moss1847
the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [noun]
lockeOE
faxc900
hairc1000
hairc1000
headOE
topc1275
toppingc1400
peruke1548
fleece1577
crine1581
head of hair1587
poll1603
a fell of haira1616
thatcha1634
maidenhair1648
chevelure1652
wool1697
toupet1834
nob-thatch1846
barnet1857
toss1946
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > hair
hairc1000
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 156 Gif hær to þicce sie.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3208 Hiss claþ wass off ollfenntess hær.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12236 About hure hed hure her to-schaked.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 235/2 Heer fyrste growynge yn' mannys berde, lanugo.
1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 396 That they wasshe none heare, but benethe the brugge.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 19 Cussions stuffed with horse here..neetis here, deris here, and gotis here.
1587 [see Phrases 19].
β. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 235 Handes wringing, and drawing bi hor.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3662 Esau es rugh wit har.a1400–50 Alexander 5476 With haare to þaire heelis.c1440 York Myst. xxxii. 21 Þe hore þat pillis my heed.γ. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 225 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 302 Hayre scho had, quhyt & streke.a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 41 Kemmit war thair clier hair.1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 2 For fallinge of the heyre of the head.1656 B. Harris in tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age Contin. 278 Which makes the haire stand on the heads of such as hear it related.1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 17 Among the hairy caterpillars..the cast skin is covered with hair.1777 F. Burney Jrnl. 7 Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 240 All our Hairs were done to the astonishment of all the Company.1816 Ld. Byron Prisoner of Chillon i. 3 My hair is grey, but not with years.1870 Ld. Tennyson Holy Grail 42 She..shore away..all that wealth of hair Which made a silken mat-work for her feet.1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vii. 238 Our hair and nails are..modifications of the external layer of the skin.
b. figurative. Applied to the rays or ‘tresses’ of the sun, the tail of a comet, ‘leafy locks’ of a tree, etc.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > [noun] > rays or waves
rayc1400
tress1423
radiation1570
hair1594
hair1606
irradiation1643
beam1664
light wave1871
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. i Yet shall the aged sun shed forth his hair.
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico i. 8 A blazing star..shooting its fiery hair point blank against the Monastery.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 710 Like a Comet..That..from his horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and Warr. View more context for this quotation
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 27 New fire..Shook its portentous hair beneath Heaven's frown.
1864 A. C. Swinburne 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 Botany sometimes extended to other outgrowths of similar origin, as prickles, spore-capsules, etc.: = trichome n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun]
hair1631
villus1704
bristle1759
striga1760
seta1793
glochidium1882
1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 35 The Quince..his fruit hath downie hayre.
1811 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Sept. 1 (title) On the Hairs of Plants.
1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants 354 The glandular hairs of ordinary plants..have the power..of absorbing both a solution and the vapour of ammonia.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. i. iii. 138 Hairs (Trichomes) is the term given in the higher plants to those outgrowths which arise only from the epidermis.
4. transferred.
a. Applied to various things having the shape, consistency, or appearance of a hair or mass of hair: e.g. threadlike stamens or filaments.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 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 n. at lady n. Compounds 3c, maidenhair n., Venus' hair.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaves or foliage
shadec1000
leafOE
felourea1400
filourc1400
hair1551
leafage1599
foliage1601
umbrage1657
foliature1682
folia1730
greenery1826
leafery1834
feather1842
leafdom1856
leaf mass1857
greening1895
the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > maidenhair fern
waterwortOE
maidenhairc1300
adianthus1526
maidenweed1526
adiantum1548
coliander1548
polytrichon1550
Venus' hair1551
well-fern1565
Our Lady's hair1597
capillary1646
maidenhair fern1833
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. B iij It [Adianthum]..may be named in English Venus heyre or ladyes heyre.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Capelli di venere, the herbe Maiden-haire, Venus-haire, or our Ladies-haire.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at 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.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre
palmite1555
coir1582
pita1648
kitul1681
silk-cotton1697
pita-thread1748
abaca1751
khus khus1798
gomuti1811
coco fibre1813
Manila hemp1814
pineapple fibre1834
moog1840
piassava1841
Para grass1850
raffia1850
African hair1851
ambari1851
diss1855
munj1855
monkey grass1858
crin vegetal1859
mung1866
lauhala1880
bass?1881
raphia bast1882
istle1883
raphia grass1885
settler's twine1898
tucum1901
Manila fibre1921
bassine1923
sotol1942
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1259 ‘Vegetable hair’, made of the leaves of the Algerian dwarf palm-tree..for the use of upholsterers.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 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 n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > trigger > hair-trigger > mechanism freed by
hair1864
1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
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 at Phrases 3.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot
cornc888
grotc888
prickleOE
prickOE
pointc1300
grain1377
hair1377
motec1390
twynt1399
mitec1400
tarec1405
drop1413
ace?1440
tittlea1450
whita1450
jot1526
Jack1530
plack1530
farthingc1540
minima1585
scintil1599
atom1626
scintillation1650
punct1653
doit1660
scintilla1674
rap1792
haet1802
dottle1808
smiggot1823
hooter1839
heartbeat1855
pick1866
filament1868
hoot1878
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing > typical examples of
little fingerc1300
pear1340
hair1377
flea1388
a pin's head (also point)c1450
fitch1550
mouse1584
minnow1596
the pestle of a lark1598
nutshella1616
pinhead1662
pinpoint1670
rope yarn1751
bee's knee1797
peanut1864
postage stamp1881
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 334 Kynghod ne knyȝthod..Helpeth nouȝt to heueneward one heres ende.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. xlv Him lakket no more to be slayne, Butte the brede of hore.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. x. sig. O.viiiv The prayse had not been the lesse of one here.
1536 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Convocation in Wks. I. 48 They would not set an hair by the name, but for the thing.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. viii. sig. N.v/1 Neither is there one hayres difference to choose.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. ii. 180 If I bee falce or swarue a hayre from truth.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 159 Their estate is not an haire better then the others.
1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. 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. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun]
kindeOE
i-cundeOE
mannera1225
jetc1330
colour1340
hair1387
estrete1393
gendera1398
hedea1400
savourc1400
stockc1450
toucha1500
rate1509
barrel1542
suit1548
fashion1562
special1563
stamp1573
family1598
garb1600
espece1602
kidney1602
bran1610
formality1610
editiona1627
make1660
cast1673
tour1702
way1702
specie1711
tenor1729
ilk1790
genre1816
stripe1853
persuasion1855
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. I. 365 With mylk of a cowe þat is of oon here [L. unius coloris].
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G3 Two notable knaues, both of a haire, and both cosen Germaines to the Deuill.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. i. 61 The quality and haire [1623 Heire] of our attempt Brookes no deuision. View more context for this quotation
1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. Author to Bk. sig. A2v Expect but flowts: for t'is the haire of crime.
a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ttt4/1 A Lady of my haire cannot want pittying.
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 n., which, in losing the final e, has become identical in form with this.]
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from hair > [noun]
hairec825
tilt-hairc1440
hairc1485
haircloth1500
hair-patch?1611
c1485 Inventory in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 371 Hayr pro ustrina.
1594 Fairfax Inv. in Archaeologia (1884) 48 130 One Seasterne of leade for barley and a kilne haire.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 568 The roof of the building coming on above much nearer the hair than in the modern kilns.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 572 A step-ladder to carry the green hops to lay on the hair.
1884 Encycl. 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.

Phrases

P1. 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.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > opposed to natural bent
against the wool1393
against the hair1532
against the wooda1568
against (also, contrary to) the graina1616
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxix Ayenst the heere it turneth.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 503 All went vtterly against the heare with him.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 80 [Oxen] obserued in the licking of themselues against the haire.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. iii. 37 If you should fight, you goe against the haire of your professions. View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) iii. ii. 34 Books in womens hands are as much against the hair, methinks, As to see men wear stomachers, or night rayles.
1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 170 Something that crosses them, and goes against the hair.
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. iii He was a wee toustie when you rubbed him again the hair.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. iv. 67 Knowing him to be of the original British bull-dog breed, which, once stroked against the hair, shows his teeth at you for ever afterwards.
P2. 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; usually with get and have (originally U.S.); so out of one's hair: out of one's way, not encumbering (see sense Phrases 17 below).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [phrase] > with hair hanging loose
in one's haira1556
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering [phrase]
in the (also a person's) road1755
in one's hair1851
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > head
open-head?c1225
open-hairc1380
open-headedc1395
discovereda1463
uncovered1570
balda1616
decovered1658
in one's hair1859
a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 17 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) II. 39 She in her here, my Lord of Suffolke beryng before herr the Crowne.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 143 Many a time he would shew her to his Souldiours in her haire.
1851 Oregon 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.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians i A large grave man in his own hair.
1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad 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.
1935 S. Lewis It can't happen Here xiii. 129 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.
1945 M. Lowry Let. (1967) 49 We had them in our hair all summer.
1951 C. Fry Sleep of Prisoners 4 You know what Absalom Said to the tree? ‘You're getting in my hair.’
1957 R. Watson-Watt Three Steps to Victory 255 His endurance of a bunch of untidy civilians constantly ‘in his hair’.
P3. to a hair: to a nicety, with the utmost exactness.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 141 Pand: Youle remember your brothers excuse? Par: To a hayre . View more context for this quotation
a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. lvi. 98 Distinguishing between good and bad to a hair.
1765 W. Cowper Let. 18 Oct. (1979) I. 120 Three or four Single Men, who suit my Temper to a Hair.
1800 C. Lamb Let. 26 Aug. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 235 I could hit him off to a hair.
P4. hair about the heels: a mark of under-bred horses; hence figurative of persons.
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1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol III. ii. xxiii. 240 ‘Hair about the heels’, muttered the Count to himself.
†P5. hair and hide, hair and hoof: every part, entirely, wholly.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase]
high and low1397
every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400
root and rind?a1400
hair and hide?c1450
stout and routc1450
bane and routc1480
overthwart and endlonga1500
(in) hide and hairc1575
right out1578
horse and footc1600
flesh and fella1616
root and branch1640
stab and stow1680
stoop and roop1728
stick, stock, stone dead1796
rump and stump1824
stump and rump1825
rump and rig1843
good and1885
the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot
every whita1450
every stitch?a1500
the devil and all1543
prow and poop1561
Christ-cross-row1579
every snip1598
thread and thrum1600
boodle1625
hair and hoof1705
rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725
tutti quanti1772
lot1791
lock, stock, and barrel1824
stock and fluke1825
the whole boiling1837
box and dice1839
the whole caboodlea1848
sub-cheese1859
the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859
the whole jingbang1866
the whole hypothec1871
the whole ball of wax1882
the whole (entire) shoot1884
(at) every whip-stitch1888
work1899
issue1919
guntz1958
full monty1979
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6860 Þai were destroyed, bath hare and hyde.
1705 Jean Irvine in Coll. Dying Testimonies (1806) 57 Poor people that would fain have strength to stand by hair and hoof of the truths of God.
1728 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden (ed. 3) Pref. 28 None contending earnestly for Substance and Circumstances, Hair and Hoof of that dear-bought Testimony.
P6. a hair in one's neck: a cause of trouble or annoyance.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation
thornc1230
dreicha1275
painc1375
cumbrance1377
diseasec1386
a hair in one's necka1450
molestationc1460
incommodity?a1475
melancholya1475
ensoigne1477
annoyance1502
traik1513
incommode1518
corsie1548
eyesore1548
fashery1558
cross1573
spite1577
corrosive1578
wasp1588
cumber1589
infliction1590
gall1591
distaste1602
plague1604
rub1642
disaccommodation1645
disgust1654
annoyment1659
bogle1663
rubber1699
noyancea1715
chagrins1716
ruffle1718
fasha1796
nuisance1814
vex1815
drag1857
bugbear1880
nark1918
pain in the neck (also arse, bum, etc.)1933
sod1940
chizz1953
a1450 Ratis Raving iii. 199 Think one the har is in thi nek.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. x. 221 An Baillie Grahame were to get word o' this..it wad be a sair hair in my neck!
P7. a hair of the dog that bit you, a hair of the same dog (or wolf): see dog n.1 Phrases 6.
P8. a hair to make a tether of: a slight pretext of which to make a great deal.
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1809 W. Scott Let. 3 Nov. (1932) II. 268 Those who wish to undermine it want but, according to our Scottish proverb, ‘a hair to make a tether of’.
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P9. to comb (a person's) hair (slang): see comb v.1 3.
P10. to cut (or divide) the hair, to split hairs: to make fine or cavilling distinctions.
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1652 W. Sancroft Mod. Policies sig. B3 Machiavel cut the haire, when he advis'd, not absolutely to disavow conscience, but to manage it with such a prudent neglect, as is scarce discernible from a tendernesse.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Philo Embassy to Caius x, in tr. Josephus Wks. 1089 To cut a Hair betwixt Satyr, and Flattery.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xv. 75 When Persons have a mind to split Hairs, and to distinguish away their Christian Duties by a Word.
1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. ii. 67 [He] splits hairs with such surprising versatility.
P11. to keep one's hair on (slang): to keep cool, not to lose one's head or get excited.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > maintain self-control [verb (intransitive)]
to keep one's countenance1470
to get above ——1603
to keep one's head1717
keep your shirt on1844
to keep one's hair on1883
to keep one's wool1890
not to bat an eye, eyelid1904
to keep one's pants on1928
to play it cool1955
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius vi Keep your hair on, my young friend.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 1/2 This is the English way of doing things; they keep their hair on their heads.
P12. 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. while dressing); also figurative; and of both men and women, to let (take) one's (back) hair down, to throw off reserve; to become confidential.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify the hair [phrase]
to put up, turn up (one's) hair1662
the world > people > person > adult > be adult [verb (intransitive)] > become adult > become adult woman
to put up, turn up (one's) hair1662
to write oneself woman1729
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > be sociable [verb (intransitive)] > throw off coldness or reserve
thaw1598
untune1609
unbend1746
relax1836
to let (take) one's (back) hair down1850
unbuckle1886
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 75 Married Women put up their hair within their Caps or Coifs.
1850 G. 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.
1921 W. de la Mare Mem. Midget iii. 15 On my seventeenth birthday I put up my hair, and was confirmed.
1925 N. Coward Vortex ii. 66 Helen and I have just had a grand heart-to-heart talk; we've undone our back hair.
1933 P. G. Wodehouse 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.
1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 31 To let their hair down and be frank about The world.
1959 Listener 15 Oct. 608/1 Mr. Fredric Warburg has reminded us of this in a volume of autobiography..in which he lets down his hair.
1967 Guardian 3 Jan. 2/7 Lively young thing, I recall—but she'll have put her hair up by now.
1967 ‘C. 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.
1967 B. 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’.
P13. to tear (†rend) one's hair, i.e. as a symptom of passionate grief.
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xiiijv This knight..sobbed, wept, and rent his heare.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. iii. 33 Teare my bright haire, & scratch my praised cheekes. View more context for this quotation
1717 [see sense 1b].
1802 R. Southey Inchcape Rock xvi Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair And curst himself in his despair.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Rose & Ring xix Tearing her hair, crying and bemoaning herself.
P14. not to turn a hair: literal of a horse, not to show sweat by the roughening of his hair; figurative not to show any sign of being discomposed, ruffled, or affected by exertion.
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a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. vii. 86 Hot! he [sc. a horse] had not turned a hair till we came to Walcot Church. View more context for this quotation
1897 R. D. Blackmore Dariel xviii. 173 When I tried her with a lot of little dodges..she never turned a hair—as the sporting people say.
P15. to get (a person) by the short hairs (formerly to get (a person, etc.) where the hair is short): to have complete control over.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > get into one's or its control
temea1387
to take hold1577
to lay, fasten a gripe on, upona1586
amenage1590
to get (a person, etc.) where the hair is short1872
cinch1875
to get a handle on1901
to sew up1904
1872 G. 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 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xx. 193 I had to tackle this miserable language... I've got it where the hair's short, I think.
1888 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 67 Then they'll rush in, and then we've got 'em by the short hairs!
1928 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 150/1 Those Chinhwan really did seem to have got the rest of the world by the short hairs.
1930 D. L. Sayers & ‘R. Eustace’ Documents in Case i. 25 She's evidently got her husband by the short hairs.
P16. to make one's hair curl: see curl v.1 4.
P17. out of one's hair: opposed to in one's hair (sense Phrases 2(c)).
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the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] > not encumbering
out of one's hair1902
1902 R. Kipling in Sat. Evening 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.
1959 J. 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.
1967 Boston 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 £12,000 a year ‘to keep him out of our hair’.
1971 P. G. Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves xvi. 177 He wanted to get Florence out of his hair without actually telling her to look elsewhere for a mate.
P18. to lose one's hair (or to get one's hair off): to lose one's temper.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry
wrethec900
wrothc975
abelghec1300
to move one's blood (also mood)c1330
to peck moodc1330
gremec1460
to take firea1513
fumec1522
sourdc1540
spitec1560
to set up the heckle1601
fire1604
exasperate1659
to fire up1779
to flash up1822
to get one's dander up1831
to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832
to have (also get) one's monkey up1833
to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837
rile1837
to go off the handle1839
to flare up1840
to set one's back up1845
to run hot1855
to wax up1859
to get one's rag out1862
blow1871
to get (also have) the pricker1871
to turn up rough1872
to get the needle1874
to blaze up1878
to get wet1898
spunk1898
to see red1901
to go crook1911
to get ignorant1913
to hit the ceiling1914
to hit the roof1921
to blow one's top1928
to lose one's rag1928
to lose one's haira1930
to go up in smoke1933
hackle1935
to have, get a cob on1937
to pop (also blow) one's cork1938
to go hostile1941
to go sparec1942
to do one's bun1944
to lose one's wool1944
to blow one's stack1947
to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950
rear1953
to get on ignorant1956
to go through the roof1958
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
to lose ita1969
to blow a gasket1975
to throw a wobbler1985
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Mod. Lover (1934) 188 ‘Nay—nay,’ said Lewis testily. ‘Don't get your hair off, Mrs. Goddard.’
1931 T. R. G. Lyell Slang, Phrase & Idiom Colloq. Eng. 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.’
1938 E. 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.
P19. In other expressions: see quots.
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1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 755 The thinges proued..are but the heire and nayles of the masse, and not the substantiall partes thereof.
1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Ciii Hee will..in the next Section tugge it in by the heare.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N1, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) As when one telles..a lie, to bid him take the haire from his lips.

Compounds

C1.
a. attributive. Of, pertaining to, or connected with hair or a hair; made or consisting of hair, or of a texture like hair. Also hairbreadth n., haircloth n., etc.
hair-bracelet n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > accessories worn in the hair > [noun] > other specific accessories
hair-bracelet1673
hair-caul1861
scrunchie1989
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 138 The mode of wearing hair-bracelets was scarce in use then.
hair-broom n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom
besomc1000
bast broom1357
brush1377
broom14..
sweepc1475
duster1575
bristle brush1601
broom-besom1693
flag-broom1697
stock-brush1700
whisk1745
birch-broom1747
hair-broom1753
spry1796
corn-broomc1810
pope's head1824
whisker1825
sweeping-brusha1828
swish1844
spoke-brush1851
whisk broom1857
Turk's head1859
wisp1875
tube-brush1877
bass-broom?1881
crumb-brush1884
dusting-brush1907
palmetto brush1913
suede brush1915
swale1949
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Broom We say, a birch-broom, a hair-broom, a rush-broom.
hair-bud n.
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1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 96 At the origin of each hair two parts are distinguished, the hair-sheath, and the germ or hair-bud.
hair-bulb n.
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1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 34 The root is found..to terminate in a bulb-shaped expansion, termed the hair bulb.
hair-camlet n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > made of specific material
skin coat1533
buff1598
buff coat1633
hair-camlet1676
duffel1852
Guernsey coat1859
rabbit1877
polo coat1880
lammy coat1916
sheepskin1917
teddy bear1925
ranch mink1934
Persian1957
Persian lamb1959
leathers1962
leopard1973
Afghan1974
sable1975
squirrel1978
1676 London Gaz. No. 1107/4 A Hair-Camblet Coat.
hair-cell n.
hair-chain n.
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1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 158 Hair Chains made to order. Send us the hair and we will braid.
1907 N. Munro Daft Days xxx. 251 The lockets are large and strong, and hair-chains much abound.
hair-club n. (see club n. 6.)
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1774 F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 288 If you are fond of hair-clubs, you should see the Portuguese ladies' hair!
hair-combing n.
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1940 G. Greene Power & Glory ii. iv. 178 There was a hair-slide,..and a ball of hair~combings.
hair-craft n.
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1962 John o' London's 4 Jan. 14/1 The haircraft women..used to tour the Swedish countryside..selling their products.
hair-crape n.
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1731 G. Martin in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 454 A Piece of Muslin, or thin Hair-Crape.
hair-crêpe n.
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1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television 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.
hair-fashion n.
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1944 A. Koestler in Horizon Mar. 162 There are..certain typical attitudes to life including clothing, hair-fashion, drink and food.
hair-felt n.
hair-fetishism n.
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1951 C. 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.
hair-fetishist n.
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1951 C. Berg Unconscious Significance of Hair vii. 61 The hair fetishist loves the women's hair but frequently has the impulse to despoil or ‘castrate’ it.
1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xxiv. 284 The hair-fetishists who loiter in tube-stations with scissors in their pockets.
hair-fibre n.
hair-glove n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Hair-gloves, horsehair gloves used for rubbing the skin in bathing, etc.
hair-goods n.
hair-guard n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > accessories worn in the hair > [noun] > net or guard
hair-guard1864
pug1866
fringe-net1899
shingle cap1926
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 163 With his decent silver watch..and its decent hair-guard.
hair-hat n.
hair-list n.
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1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. v. 19 British woollens, such as hair-list drabs.
hair-merchant n.
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1705 London Gaz. No. 4098/4 William Taylor..Hair-Merchant.
hair-rope n.
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1577 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) III. 580 Hair rope to stake the mill horse.
hair-scale n.
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1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. v. 182 At the tip of the moth's body there is a brush of long hair-scales resembling feathers.
hair-seating n.
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1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 535 Specimens of damask and striped hair-seating, various colours.
hair-shaft n.
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1906 Practitioner Nov. 692 Complete removal..of the hair-shaft, together with the root-sheath or papilla.
1924 Chambers's Jrnl. 668/2 The process flattens the almost spherical hairshaft and causes it to lean inwards.
hair-sheath n.
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1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 96 At the origin of each hair two parts are distinguished, the hair-sheath, and the germ or hair-bud.
hair-substance n.
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1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 34 The cortical substance, termed also hair substance, constitutes the bulk of the hair.
hair-tint n.
hair-tip n.
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1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiv. f. 177 The cursed witch had smit Our highest heare tippes with her wand.
hair-work n.
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1790 Columbian Centinel 13 Oct. 36/4 The Artists' ability in Painting and Hair-Work may be seen.
1959 Times 7 Mar. 9/4 Hairwork jewelry was already popular in the late seventeenth century.
b. attributive. For or for the use of the hair. Also hair-band n.1, hairbrush n., hairpin n., etc.
hair appointment n.
ΚΠ
1938 D. Du Maurier Rebecca xxiv. 402 Mrs. de Winter had a hair appointment from twelve until one thirty.
hair-caul n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > accessories worn in the hair > [noun] > other specific accessories
hair-bracelet1673
hair-caul1861
scrunchie1989
1861 C. W. King Antique Gems (1866) 160 The ear-rings, necklaces, hair-cauls, or fillets, of the female busts.
hair-clasp n.
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1894 A. 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.
hair-clip n.
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1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry 55 Hairclips have been taken from them.
hair-comb n.
ΚΠ
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 472/2 Two brass hair-combs set with glass rubies.
hair-conditioner n.
ΚΠ
1951 Catal. Exhibits South Bank Exhib. Festival of Brit. 63/2 Hair Conditioner.
hair-cream n.
ΚΠ
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 491/1 Hair Cream, for fixing the hair.
hair-dye n.
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1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 3 554 Invent a new hair-dye expressly to accommodate his wife.
1933 W. 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.
hair-grip n.
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1896 Woman'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.
1955 Sci. News Let. 5 Mar. 150/3 Hair-grips and kirbi-grips are known in America as bobby pins.
hair-lacquer n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun] > fixatives
bandoline1846
fixature1860
setting lotion1926
lacquer1941
hair-lacquer1943
gel1958
mousse1982
1943 Mod. Beauty Shop Sept. i. 104 (advt.) A national publicity campaign is informing women everywhere that hair lacquer is best applied with an ordinary toothbrush.
1978 Zizmor & Foreman Superhair x. 90 Setting lotions..contain the same hair lacquers and plasticizers found in aerosol hair sprays.
hair-lotion n.
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1906 T. D. Lister Chavasse's Advice to Mother (ed. 16) iii. 370 Avoid grease, pomatum, hair lotions, and all abominations of that kind.
1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove vii. 221 Mr. Period's bedroom smelt of hair lotion.
hair-net n.
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1909 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xiii. 273 A handsome sales-room where are sold..Hair Preparations,..Hair nets, etc.
hair-oil n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun]
lye1556
lotium1595
lavature1601
wash1670
lavatory1694
hair-oil1810
marrow oil1855
hairdressing1907
haircare1935
1810 E. Weeton Let. 25 Feb. in Jrnl. of Governess (1969) I. 233 A small phial of hair oil.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford xii. 174 The delusive lady was off upon..the merits of cosmetics and hair oils in general.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. v. 116 There were hair-washes, and hair-oils.
hair-ornament n.
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1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 183 Real Tortoise Shell Hair Ornaments.
1967 H. Porter in Coast to Coast 1965–6 178 They were not discussing the weather or hair-ornaments.
hair-pad n.
hair-preparation n.
ΚΠ
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 779/5 Hair Preparation.
1909 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xiii. 273 A handsome sales-room where are sold..Hair Preparations,..etc.
hair-ribbon n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > accessories worn in the hair > [noun] > ribbons
stringa1400
puff1601
hair-ribbon1790
follow-me-lads1862
1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 98 Two hats..hair-ribband and hair-dressing.
hair-scissors n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > scissors
hair-scissors1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 398 They ought..to be named what kind of cisers they are, whether Hair cisers..or Beard cisers.
hair-slide n. (see slide n. 6.)
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1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. Index Hair Slides.
1927 Glasgow Herald 6 Oct. 11 Her hair-slide was found some distance from the body.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 166 A hair slide..is a clip for keeping the hair in place.
hair-spray n.
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1959 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 280/4 Glow Hair Spray.
1966 Vogue Nov. 81/2 Creamy Skin Perfume..and a hair spray.
1967 W. Pine Protectors i. 10 He smelt the scent of her hair-spray.
hair-tonic n.
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1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer Index Hair Tonic.
1897 Badminton Mag. IV. 380 My hair tonic costs eight-and-sixpence a bottle.
1938 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood On Frontier i. i. 28 Surely he's the man who does the hair-tonic advertisements?
hair-wash n.
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1869 D. 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.
1938 H. Nicolson Let. 18 May (1966) 342 My hairwash comes from Floris.
c. Objective and objective genitive. Also hairdresser n., hair-splitter n., hair-splitting n.
(a)
hair-buyer n.
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1721 London Gaz. No. 5921/4 Mary Penstone..Hair-buyer.
hair-clasper n.
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1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species (1878) vi. 153 Parasite mites..furnished with hair-claspers.
hair-clipper n.
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1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 444/1 The very best hair clipper in the market.
1930 Daily Express 6 Nov. 19/3 A display of the latest type of electrical hair-clippers.
1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus iii. 58 The next thing was carefully to shave the area... This was done with an electric hair-clipper.
hair-curler n.
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1753 in E. Singleton Social N.Y. under Georges (1902) 176 Hair~curler and peruke-maker from London.
1872 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1870 II. 779/1 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (41st Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 89) IX Hair-Curler... [A] combination, with a curling-iron tube [etc.].
1929 Bookman May 270/1 A woman's steel hair curlers.
1936 Discovery Aug. 250/2 A long ivory rod with a pomegranate finial is probably a hair curler.
hair-cutter n.
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1694 London Gaz. No. 3036/4 Perriwig-maker and Hair Cutter.
1889 Monthly Packet Christmas 102 I suppose—there—ain't no hair-cutters up in Heaven?
hair-dealer n.
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1707 London Gaz. No. 4336/8 John Jesson..Grazier and Hair-dealer.
hair-dryer n.
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1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 180/1 The Princess Patent Hair Dryer and Burnisher.
1909 Installation News 3 7 This Hair-Dryer works..by means of a small..electric fan.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 13 Oct. 7/4 One ounce of hair, which she was drawing through the hair-dryer in her hands.
1961 Times 26 Apr. 25/4 Domestic appliances such as..hair-driers.
hair-frizzer n.
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1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 97 Language-masters, music-masters, hair-frizzers.
hair-monger n.
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1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany I. 324 The profit thus netted by these hair-mongers, during a tour through the country.
hair-remover n.
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1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 532/3 Hair Remover.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 60/2 Hair removers..are backed by long-standing national advertising campaigns.
hair-seller n.
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1713 London Gaz. No. 5154/4 William Bell..Hair-seller.
hair-stainer n.
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1725 London Gaz. No. 6382/11 Charles Parker..Hair-Stainer.
hair-straightener n.
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1898 Today 5 Nov. 18/1 The Hair Straightener Company manufactures an instrument that will at once remove the curl from the most stubborn hair.
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 74/2 Hair-straightener, (1) A preparation to straighten frizzy or over-curly hair. (2) An implement that straightens frizzy hair.
hair-waver n.
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1892 Queen 27 Feb. in L. de Vries Vict. Advts. (1968) 42/1 Automatic hair waver and curler..Price 2s. 6d.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op Soc. Price List. 15 Sept. 180/2 Hair Wavers (Patent).
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 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.
(b)
hair-clipping n.
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1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 11 Undergoing the process of hair-clipping.
hair-colouring n.
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1959 Punch 3 June 752/1 Hair~colouring (modern usage for hair-dyeing) has become part of a woman's normal routine.
hair-conditioning n.
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1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 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.
hair-curling n. and adj.
hair-cutting n. and adj.
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1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Mar. 60/2 The announcement ‘Hair-cutting rooms’ in the window.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) vii. 77 My recollection of..canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays.
1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice lii. 295 The hair-cutting parlour behind the shop.
hair-doing n.
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1875 C. M. Yonge My Young Alcides I. vii. 232 In the midst of my hair-doing..Viola's running in to me.
hair-drying n. and adj.
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1902 M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp viii. 159 You dive into the sparkling river.., forgetting all about hair-drying.
1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 June 495/2 In my lady's room may be found electrically heated curling-irons and an ingenious hair-drying machine.
hair-dyeing n.
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1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce i. iii. 96 The art of hair-dyeing came into vogue.
hair-lifting adj.
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1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxvii. 355 I flung out a hair-lifting soul-scorching thirteen-jointed insult.
hair-nourishing adj.
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1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Cor. xi. 14) Homer calleth the Greeks hair-nourishing men.
hair-picking n. and adj.
hair-straightening n.
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1898 Today 5 Nov. 18/1 The moisture of the atmosphere does more hair straightening than is conducive to feminine happiness.
1966 B.B.C. Handbk. 25 Could we broadcast something about a new hair straightening cream?
hair-teasing adj.
d. Instrumental.
hair-bottomed adj.
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1818 J. Keats Let. 5 July (1958) I. 319 Hair bottomed chairs.
hair-hung adj.
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1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 21 Hair-hung, breeze-shaken, o'er the Gulph.
hair-suspended adj.
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1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 39 Like the Sicilian's hair-suspended sword.
hair-swung adj.
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1868 J. G. Whittier Among Hills i The hangbird..His hair-swung cradle straining.
e. Similative and parasynthetic. Also hair-streak n., hair-stroke n., hairworm n.
hair-coloured adj.
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1678 London Gaz. No. 1272/4 A hair-coloured large Suit.
hair-fissure adj.
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1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 138 A hair fissure is perceptible..in the upper hieroglyphic.
hair-pointed adj.
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1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 376 Leaves egg-spear-shaped, hair-pointed.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 385 Hair-pointed..terminating in a very fine, weak point; as the leaves of many mosses.
hair-shaped adj.
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1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 376 Hair-shaped..the same as filiform, but more delicate, so as to resemble a hair.
hair-stripe adj.
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1920 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 161/2 They would, I understand, be described by tailors as ‘fine cachemire with hair-stripe suitable for gents' morning wear’.
C2. Special combinations:
hair bag n. (a) a bag made of hair or of very thin thread; (b) a bag in which human hair is kept; (c) (see quot. 1966).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > of other specific material
net bag1598
hair bag1712
paper bag1723
thread bag1924
plastic bag1941
polybag1964
ziplock1974
buveera1994
kaveera1994
1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II 2 Haws put in a Hair-bag, and soaked in Water all Winter..will come up the first Year.
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. K To make Cider..stamp your Apples, press them in a Hair Bag.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery vi. 65 Strain it through a coarse Hair-bag..then strain it through a Hair-sieve.
1824 J. Morier Adventures Hajji Baba xvii. 188 The different operations of rubbing with the hand, and of the friction with the hair bag.
1911 R. G. Anderson in 4th Rep. Wellcome Trop. 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.
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 69/2 Hair-bag,..a bag to hold the queue of a bag-wig.
hair-ball n. (see quot. 1753).
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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > (part of) hair > in specific place
hair-ball1712
throat mane1892
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 451 In the Stomachs of these..the Hair-Balls are compos'd.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Hair-balls, masses of hair of different shapes and sizes found in the stomachs of cows, oxen, calves, deer, and other animals.
hair-bird n. a popular name of the chipping-bird ( Zonotrichia socialis) of North America.
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1869 J. Burroughs in Galaxy Mag. Aug. The social-sparrow, alias ‘hair-bird’, alias ‘red-headed chipping-bird’, is the smallest of the sparrows.
hair-bracket n. (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > any part in front of stem > figure-head > moulding at back of
hair-bracket1823
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Hair-bracket.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hair-bracket, the moulding at the back of the figure-head.
† hair-bramble n. Obsolete the dewberry, Rubus cæsius.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 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.
hair-brown n. (see quot.).
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1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. Hair brown, a colour formed of brown with a little yellow and grey.
† hair-bush n. Obsolete a bushy head of hair.
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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick
bush1509
hair-bush1580
bush-heada1603
shag1607
fella1616
mop1616
bush-hair1692
hassock1754
mopheada1816
shock-head1817
shock1819
flock-hair1878
tousle1880
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Chevelure, the haire bush.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 41 Wee ruffled his hearebush.
hair-button n. a button made with hair.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > button > types of
hair-button1593
frog1635
bar-button1685
frost button1686
sleeve-button1686
berry-button1702
stud1715
pearl button1717
breast button1742
bell-button1775
shell button1789
red button1797
olivet1819
bullet-buttons1823
basket-button1836
all-over1838
top1852
olive1890
pearly1890
nail head1892
1593 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 371 iiij grose of haire bottonnes.
1785 J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebr. 9 He wore a full suit of plain brown clothes, with twisted hairbuttons of the same colour.
hair-colour n. (a) ? = hair-brown n.; (b) the colour of a person's hair.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > yellowish brown
honey colour1571
hair-colour1615
butternut1810
cinnamon-brown1826
honey1888
cinnamon1895
walnut1895
golden oak1898
almond1923
Sahara1923
sand1923
sandalwood1926
the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun]
hair-colour1885
1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1660) 123 If you will dye your wool of a bright haire colour.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 36 Pure hair colour dapled with green.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 62 Cockroches..of a pure hair-colour.
1885 J. Beddoe Races of Brit. xiii. 144 The division of hair-colours..into red, fair, brown, dark, and black.
1906 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 36 325 Such statistics as those..of eye colour, hair colour, as in many anthropological works.
1972 Woman 22 Jan. 17 Do you know that British women spend a staggering £10 million a year on changing their hair colour?
hair-compasses n. compasses which can be regulated to the utmost nicety; see quot.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring distances > compasses, dividers, or callipers
compassa1387
proportional compass1570
callipers1571
calliper compass1581
triangular compasses1701
dividers1703
cannipers1707
hair-compasses1728
bow-compass1796
outside calliper1874
wing-compass1875
moff1885
odd-leg1900
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Compasses Hair-Compasses, so contrived within-side, as to take an Extent to a Hair's-breadth.
1807 T. Young Course 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.
hair-cord n. (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.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > ribbed or corded > specific
barragan1677
prince's stuff1784
eight-shaft1840
hairline1862
hair-cord1866
grosgrain1869
Janus-cord1881
pincord1919
needlecord1959
1866 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xii. 133 1 White hair cord dressing jacket.
1899 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. 46 ‘This is her hair,’ he said, taking the hair~cord between his fingers and kissing it.
1920 L. Harmuth Dict. Textiles (ed. 2) Haircord, English dress muslin made with thick warp cords.
1923 Weekly Dispatch 18 Feb. 12 (advt.) Useful Shirt in White Haircord Voile.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 34/1 For a..hair cord carpet, herring-bone the raw edges on the underside.
1960 Textile Terms & Defs. (ed. 4) 76 Haircord carpet, a carpet produced by weaving over unbladed wires.
hair crack n. Metallurgy = hairline n. 7.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > qualities of metals > [noun] > imperfections
honeycomb1530
roll mark1894
hair crack1896
season crack1909
season cracking1910
snowflake1919
hairline crack1923
shrinkage cavity1923
clink1925
shatter crack1930
stretcher strain1931
pimpling1940
stringer1942
quench cracking1949
1896 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 37 215 A 10 in. steel shaft..had shown fine hair cracks on the surface near the propeller.
1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 111 113 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.
1959 J. H. Thornley Found. 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.
hair-cut n. (also 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.
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1899 Westm. Gaz. 5 Dec. 8/1 The trade in Pretoria was kept very busy for about ten days giving the burghers a commando hair-cut.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 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.
1904 Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 4/7 The barbers of Bethlehem, Pa., have raised the price of haircuts from sevenpence to tenpence.
1923 Glasgow 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.’
1924 R. Macaulay Orphan Island xviii. §2. 241 They were interrupted by Mr. Albert Edward Smith, who had come for a shave and a hair-cut.
hair-drawn adj. drawn out as fine as a hair.
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1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1304 Its lengthy and hair-drawn dialectics.
hair-eel n. a kind of filiform worm inhabiting stagnant water.
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1895 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phr. & Fable Hair Eels, these filiform worms belong to the species Gordius aquaticus, found in stagnant pools.
hair-follicle n. the cylindrical depression in the skin from which a hair grows, extending through the corium to the subcutaneous connective tissue.
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1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 9/1 Into each hair-follicle..there open the ducts of one or two little glands.
hair-hygrometer n. a hygrometer depending upon the expansion of hair when exposed to damp.
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1878 G. S. Nares Voy. to Polar Sea I. xii. 319 The hair-hygrometer continues to work in an unsatisfactory manner.
hair-kiln n. a hop kiln covered with a haircloth on which the hops are spread out to dry.
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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 754 Where hair kilns are in use..charcoal is had recourse to.
hair-lead n. a very thin lead used for spacing in printing.
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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 56 Hair leads, very thin leads—mostly sixteen to a pica—rarely used nowadays.
hair-lichen n. an eruption attacking the roots of the hair.
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1849 C. A. Harris Dict. Dental Sci. 356/1 Hair Lichen, an eruption confined to the roots of the hair, followed, after ten days, by disquamation.
hair-locket n. a locket for holding a lock of hair.
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1679 London Gaz. No. 1379/4 A Hair Locket, set round with small Table Diamonds.
hair-man n. a man who dresses or makes up hair.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun]
barberc1330
cutterc1425
clipperc1440
raster cloth1440
poller1578
trimmer1583
dressera1596
shavester1620
razor-chirurgeon1624
suds-monger1638
tonsor1656
hair-man1689
head-dresser1697
friseur1750
hairdresser1771
scraper1791
depilator1836
coiffeur1847
Figaro1864
strap1864
tonsorialist1869
trichotomist1875
nai1883
hair-stylist1935
stylist1937
styler1960
crimper1966
Sweeney1966
scissorsmith2002
1689 London Gaz. No. 2477/4 He took her from a Hair-man upon the Highway.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6170/9 James Mathewson..Hairman.
hair-mattress n. a mattress stuffed with hair.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress > filled with hair
hair-mattress1836
1836 in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1892) 2nd Ser. VII. 276 Mine an upper berth; a hair mattress to lie on.
1863 J. Nash Brit. Patent 2681 I..take an ordinary wool, hair, or other mattrass, and fasten it..to the top of the spring frame.
1931 Times 16 Mar. 2/7 Box-springs, hair mattresses.
† hair-meal n. Obsolete a hair's breadth, the extent of a hair.
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c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §38. 47 Whan the shadwe of the pyn entreth any-thyng with-in the cercle of thi plate an her-mele.
hair-mole n. (also hair-mold) a mole on the skin, having a hair or hairs on it.
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1680 London Gaz. No. 1496/4 A hair mold on his left Cheek.
hair-moss n. a moss of the genus Polytrichum.
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1854 J. Hogg Microscope ii. iv. 398 The undulated hair moss..is found on moist shady banks.
† hair-needle n. Obsolete = hairpin n.
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1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Horse Seams, Scabs, and Hair-brokenness..on the inward Bow of his Knees.
hair-net n. (see net n.1 3).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hair-net
tressurea1350
crespine?1533
net1813
hair-net1865
1865 M. Eyre Lady's Walks S. of France xv. 185 Quilts, mittens, hair-nets, and other articles knitted, of Pyrenean wool.
1873 Young Englishwoman Jan. 38/2 Hair nets..may either be worked with coloured silk or, if intended for night wear, with white cotton.
1958 ‘C. Fremlin’ Hours before Dawn ii. 22 The wisps of untidy grey hair protruding from her hairnet.
hair-netted adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a hair-net
snooded1810
hair-netted1950
1950 J. Cannan Murder Included ii. 21 Elizabeth Hudson,..high- collared, hair-netted.
1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vi. 164 The hair-netted lady at the next table.
† hair-patch n. Obsolete haircloth.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from hair > [noun]
hairec825
tilt-hairc1440
hairc1485
haircloth1500
hair-patch?1611
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads xiv. Comm. Stuff nothing so substantial, but such gross sowtege or hair-patch as every goose may eat oats through.
1686 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 3) v. iv. 38 Take an Hair-patch, and rub his Body all over.
hair-pencil n. a painter's brush made of camel's hair or the like.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > brush > types of
pencila1350
calaber pencil1583
washing-brush1585
softener1756
hair-pencil1763
camel('s) hair pencil1771
pound brush1780
dabberc1790
varnishing brush1825
writer1825
red sable1859
sweetener1859
varnish brush1859
fitch1873
sable-brush1873
wash-brush1873
Poona brush1875
hake1882
rigger1883
airbrush1884
liner1886
sable1891
stippler1891
aerograph1898
mop brush1904
filbert brush1950
1763 Gentleman's Mag. 33 83/2 Let the spots be gently rubbed with a hair pencil.
1775 Philos. Treas. LXV. 243 It may..be cleansed by wiping it with a soft hair-pencil.
1965 Listener 26 Aug. 316/2 Modelling, carving and engraving, prowess with the inked hair~pencil: these complete the specifically aesthetic skills of the Chinese.
hairpiece n. a length of false hair used to augment the natural hair.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > artificial hair > section or lock of
sidelock1530
lock1601
tour1674
snake1676
front1693
bull-tour1724
back-head1731
ramillies tail1782
frontlet1785
frisette1818
toupee1862
postiche1867
switch1870
pin-curl1873
scalpette1881
wig-tail1888
chichi1906
hairpiece1939
fall1943
toup1959
1939 Time 25 Dec. 2/3 He wears a toupee (hairpiece or divot in Hollywood) for cinema and most public appearances.
1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television 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.
1969 Times 20 Mar. 27/1 The man sitting next to you may be wearing a hairpiece.
hair-plate n. the plate at the back of a bloomery.
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 .v. Bloomary The sides are iron plates, the hair-plate at the back, the cinder-plate at the front, etc.
hair-point n. Botany an extension of the nerve at the top of some moss leaves, forming a fine tip.
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > parts of
moutha1398
fimbria1752
calyptra1753
veil1760
lid1776
apophysis1785
operculum1788
peristoma1792
peristome1799
peristomium1806
hair-point1818
vaginula1818
perigynium1821
vaginule1821
gemma1830
paraphyllium1832
tympanum1832
perigon1857
pseudopodium1861
commissure1863
ocrea1863
cap1864
chaeta1866
struma1866
membranulet1891
pyxis1900
pseudopod1914
annulus-
1818 W. J. Hooker & T. Taylor Muscologia Britannica 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].
1867 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims (1875) vii. 179 Bringing it to a hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.
1893 H. 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.
1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 74/2 In the form [of Grimmia apocarpa] shown here the leaves are tinged reddish-brown and have white ‘hair points’.
hair-pyrites n. a synonym of millerite n.2
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1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 263 Hair- or Capillary-Pyrites.
hair-raiser n.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [noun] > one who or that which excites
fermentc1420
exciter1617
incendiary1628
electrifier1791
excitor1814
animation1817
shocker1824
hair-raiser1897
heartthrobber1903
heart-stopper1906
sizzler1942
turn-on1969
G-spot1983
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > hair-raiser
hair-raiser1897
1897 Westm. 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.
hair-raising adj. capable of causing the hair to ‘stand on end’ through fear or excitement.
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1900 Daily News 24 Apr. 7/5 The hair-raising, long, steep descent of Box Hill.
1902 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 3/4 Marvellous yarns of hair-raising perils.
1928 Daily Express 17 Aug. 9/1 There were a few hair-raising mishaps, but nobody was hurt.
1957 Times 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.
hair-raisingly adv.
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1960 Times 15 Feb. 15/2 England had left it hair-raisingly late, but it was enough.
hair-restorer n. a preparation used to promote the growth of hair.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun] > to restore growth
hair-restorer1873
Regaine1985
Rogaine1986
1873 Young Englishwoman Aug. 414/1 Helena has heard ‘hair restorers’ so much condemned.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 266 The search for a good hair-restorer..is as vain as the search for happiness.
hair-sac n. = hair-follicle n.
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1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. xii. 292 A hair..is at first wholly enclosed in a kind of bag, the hair sac.
hair-salt n. [ < German haarsalz,] a name given to alunogen.
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1795 Schmeisser Syst. Mineral. I. 270 Hair salt..is of a silvery-white color.
hair-seal n. an eared seal of the family Otariidæ, sub-family Tricophocinæ.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Ostaridae (eared seal)
eared seal?a1808
hair-seal1824
otary1834
otariid1871
1824 Shipping & Commercial List 31 July in Pettigrew Papers (MS, Univ. N. Carolina) About 500 hair Seal Skins,..were sold by auction.
1844 D. Lee & J. H. Frost Ten Years in Oregon xx. 224 One eye, which..a hair seal had scratched out.
1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. vi. 56 A hair-seal cap and a frock-coat.
1865 W. Boyd Swartzen 106 Greenland hair-seal, South-Sea fur-seal.
1894 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. II. 107 The fur-seals are, of course, far more valuable commercially than the hair-seals.
hair-slip n. a place on a green hide where the grain has decayed causing the hair to slip.
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1903 L. 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.
hair-slipped adj. marked with decayed places.
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1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 265 Third, good No. 2. This term designates those skins that are slightly hair slipped.
† hair-slitting adj. Obsolete hair-splitting (figurative).
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1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 139 Our hair-slitting and irrefragable Doctor.
hair-space n. a very thin space used in printing.
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1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 455/1 The smallest kind, which are called, from their extreme thinness, hair-spaces.
hair-spring n. (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 spring n.1).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > spring or noose in
swickle1621
hair-spring1707
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of
barrel1591
motion1605
bezel1616
fusee1622
string1638
crown wheel1646
out-case1651
watch-box1656
nuck1664
watchwork1667
balance-wheel1669
box1675
dial wheel1675
counter-potence1678
pendulum-balance1680
watch-case1681
pillar1684
contrate teeth1696
pinion of report1696
watch-hook1698
bob-balance1701
half-cock1701
potence1704
verge1704
pad1705
movable1709
jewel1711
pendant1721
crystal1722
watch-key1723
pendulum spring1728
lock spring1741
watch-glass1742
watch-spring1761
all-or-nothing piece1764
watch hand1764
cylinder1765
cannon?1780
cannon1802
stackfreed1819
pillar plate1821
little hand1829
hair-spring1830
lunette1832
all-or-nothing1843
locking1851
slag1857
staff1860
case spring1866
stem1866
balance-cock1874
watch-dial1875
balance-spring1881
balance-staff1881
Breguet spring1881
overcoil1881
surprise-piece1881
brass edge1884
button turn1884
fourth wheel1884
fusee-sink1884
pair-case1884
silver bar1884
silver piece1884
slang1884
top plate1884
karrusel1893
watch-face1893
watch bracelet1896
bar-movement1903
jewel pivot1907
jewel bearing1954
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 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.
1830 H. Kater & D. Lardner Treat. Mechanics xiv. 195 A spiral spring..called a hair spring.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 37 With consummate skill he has set his trap with a hair springe..and then..got his own leg into it.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1049 Hair-springs are made of fine steel, which comes upon spools like thread.
hair-stone n. [German haarstein] a synonym of sagenite n.
hair-style n. a particular way of dressing the hair.
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1913 Dress & Vanity Fair Oct. 91/1 Mme. Fried is prepared to show all of the latest..Hair Styles.
1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax ix. 84 She longed for some new perfume, a new hair~style.
1963 V. Nabokov Gift ii. 139 He had a remarkable hair style that was also somehow indecent.
hair-styling n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun]
busk1516
barbery1540
dressing1557
buskinga1568
barbering1660
hairdressing1771
haircare1935
hair-styling1936
1936 Harper'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.
1960 Guardian 19 Apr. 2/5 The Princess had led the world's hair-styling fashion. She had been ‘an ambassadress’ of British hair-styling.
hair-stylist n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun]
barberc1330
cutterc1425
clipperc1440
raster cloth1440
poller1578
trimmer1583
dressera1596
shavester1620
razor-chirurgeon1624
suds-monger1638
tonsor1656
hair-man1689
head-dresser1697
friseur1750
hairdresser1771
scraper1791
depilator1836
coiffeur1847
Figaro1864
strap1864
tonsorialist1869
trichotomist1875
nai1883
hair-stylist1935
stylist1937
styler1960
crimper1966
Sweeney1966
scissorsmith2002
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.
† hair-tail n. Obsolete a name given to fishes of the family Trichiuridæ, esp. Trichiurus lepturus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Trichiuroidei > [noun] > member of family Trichiuridae (hair-tail)
trichiure1813
trichiurid1854
hair-tail1860
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 354 The ribbon-fishes..some of these, as the hair-tail..are of large size.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 436 The ‘Hair-tails’ belong to the tropical marine fauna.
hair-tail worm n. = hair-eel n.
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1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Hair-Tail Worm, common name for the Gordius aquaticus.
hair-tidy n. a tidy [tidy n. 1c] for hair-combings.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > containers for > for hair combings
hair-tidy1907
1907 Yesterday'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.
1935 Punch 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.
1960 B. L. Snook Eng. Hist. Embroidery 116 It suddenly became genteel to embroider..hair tidies, pin-cushions, spectacle and comb cases and what-nots.
hair-trim n. [trim n. 4d]
ΚΠ
1957 S. Beckett All that Fall 30 Hairtrims and shaves.
hair-trunk n. a trunk covered with skin retaining the hair.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes
trussing coffera1387
lode-malea1400
gardeviance1459
trussing mail1485
trussing chest1540
trunk1609
portmanteau trunk1683
hair-trunk1693
mail-trunka1726
trunkie1728
trunk-mail1771
imperial1773
cedar chest1775
Noah's Ark1803
wardrobe trunk1815
dress case1819
yakdan1824
pitara1828
bullock-trunk1844
dress basket1857
Saratoga trunk1857
Saratoga1863
black jack1885
innovation trunk1912
1693 London Gaz. No. 2832/4 A yellow Hair Trunk Mail.
1881 E. F. Poynter Among the Hills I. 311 Her feet planted on her little hair-trunk in front.
hair-tuft n. (see quots.).
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1905 E. Phillpotts Secret Woman i. ii. 21 The hair-tufts of his eyebrows had been tawny, but they were now turning.
1923 G. A. Gaskell Dict. Sacred Lang. 335/2 Hair tuft between the eyebrows of Buddha: An emblem of spiritual truth within the soul.
† hair-weed n. Obsolete a conferva.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Hair-weed, conferva, in botany, the name of a genus of mosses.

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Proverb. one hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen and variants: a (beautiful) woman has great powers, esp. of attracting men. Cf. beauty draws more than oxen, beauty draws us with a single hair at beauty n. Phrases 2d. Now rare. [Compare Italian Piu tira un sol pelo d'una bella donna, Che non fanno cento paia di buoi (1591 in the source of quot. 1591), Più tira un pelo di donna, che cento carra de buoi. (1642 in the source of quot. 1642).]
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1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 183 Ten teemes of oxen draw much lesse, Than doth one haire of Helens tresse.
1642 G. Torriano Sel. Ital. Prov. 86 One hair of a woman, draweth more then an hundred yoake of oxen.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 70 She..Can draw you to her, with a single Hair.
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. sig. Mm2/3 We say, A Hair of a Woman draws more than a Yoke of Oxen.
1816 Amusing Chron. 5 Dec. 181 Well he knows that one lock of the old Gentlewoman's hair draws more than a team of oxen.
1863 H. W. Longfellow Saga King Olaf in Tales Wayside Inn 142 Not ten yoke of oxen Have the power to draw us Like a woman's hair!
1916 Acts & Proc. 11th Ann. Meeting Pennsylvania Federation Hist. Societies 12 One thing I do know, ‘One hair of a woman draws more than a bell rope.’
1948 R. Laughlin Wind leaves no Shadow (1951) 210 He repeated the old proverb, ‘A woman's hair draws more than a team of oxen.’

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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).
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1990 Washington Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. e7 ‘Braids, Cornrows, Dreadlocks and Hair Wraps’, a workshop on African-American hair braiding.
1998 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 8 Nov. Hair wraps and beads:..the craze..entailed wrapping a fine piece of hair with coloured threads and beads.

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hair wrapping n. a hairstyling technique in which one or more thin plaits or locks of hair are wrapped tightly in (esp. coloured) thread.
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1979 Essence 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.
1990 J. 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.
1999 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 22 Sept. b3 An on-site caricaturist, hair wrapping and wooden pumpkin painting.

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hair lightener n. a preparation or substance used to bleach or lighten hair.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun] > colours
wash1670
permanent dye1815
blondine1888
hair lightener1892
washable distemper1894
reng1901
tint1921
blue rinse1924
rinse1928
permanent tint1960
powder colour1966
toner1966
1892 Young Ladies' Jrnl. June 334/2 We give preference to peroxide of hydrogen as a hair-lightener.
1972 Vogue May 120/2 A hair lightener that sprays on—what could be simpler?
2008 Milady's Standard Cosmetol. (rev. ed.) xix. 489 Hair lighteners are used to create a light blond shade that is not achievable with permanent haircolor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

hairv.

Etymology: < hair n.
†1. transitive (?) To edge with hair or fur. Scottish. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > trim > border or edge > in specific way
panec1330
aglet1530
hair1539
picot1913
1539 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 37 Lynit with quhit furring, and harit with martrikis sabill.
1578 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 219 Ane..gowne..pasmentit with silver and a haring of martrikkes.
2. transitive. To free from hair; to depilate.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > remove impurities from [verb (transitive)] > free from hair
hair1802
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > clean hide > remove hair
pull1550
hair1802
grain1841
unhair1845
slate1885
fine-hair1891
1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 81 This practice..was called hairing the butter.
1824 Mechanic's Mag. No. 30. 32 By his method, raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than 30 hours.
3. intransitive.
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. transitive. To fit hairs to (a violin-bow).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > accessories [verb (transitive)] > fit strings > string or hair bow
string1663
hair1898
1898 H. R. Haweis Old Violins 116 Most violinists prefer to pay a small sum and get their bows haired.

Derivatives

hairing n.
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1888 Milit. Engineer. I. ii. 55 The hair is removed with a semi-circular knife, called a hairing-knife.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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