horsehairn.

Brit.

/ˈhɔːshɛː/, U.S.

/ˈhɔrsˌhɛr/

Forms: see horse n. and hair n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., hair n.

Etymology: < horse n. + hair n.Compare Middle High German rossehār (German Rosshaar), Old Icelandic hrosshár.

a. A hair from the mane or tail of a horse. animated horsehair n. = horsehair-worm n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > tail > part of

horsehaira1387

stern1575

strumple1598

strunt1610

truncheon1639

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > coat > mane or types of > hair from

horsehaira1387

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 323 A briȝt swerd and a scharp euene aboue his heued by an hors here.

1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (1898) 155 Nothynge the Swerde held, Saue oone hors-here.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 28 A voyce in her eares which Horse-haires, and Calues-guts..can neuer amend [printed amed] .

1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4064 (heading) Extract of a letter..concerning animated horse~hairs, rectifying a Vulgar Error.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Animated Horse-Hairs,..a sort of long and slender water-worm..generally, by the vulgar, supposed to be the hair fallen from a Horse's mane into the water.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 655 Fruit-stalks hardly thicker than horse hair.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 83 Suspended, by means of a horse-hair.

b. A mass or collection of such hair.In quot. 1850 = legal verbiage, horsehair being use to make barrister's wigs. vegetable horsehair n. see quote. 1897.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > hair > specific type or of specific animal

horsehairc1305

bristlec1314

brock-wool1500

camel's hair1771

fine hair1885

pig wool1892

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Bromeliaceae > [noun]

bromelia1822

anonad1847

bromeliad1866

vegetable horsehair1897

c1305 Edmund Conf. 158 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 75 Seint Edmund werede strong here..Of hard hors-her ymaked.

1494 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 19 Preamb. Cussions stuffed with horse here.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 338 The Chynaes..they write with pencils made of horse hayre.

1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 91 The Hair cut from the manes and tails of Horses is considered and passed in London as Horse Hair, and no other.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets ii. 37 In spite of all this..blotting out of Heaven's sunlight by mountains of horsehair and officiality.

1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants II. 372 Tillandsia usneoides, L. (long moss, old man's beard, vegetable horsehair).

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as horsehair crest, horsehair-crested adj., horsehair-dresser, horsehair glove, horsehair plume, etc.; in sense ‘covered with a fabric woven of horsehair’, as horsehair chair, horsehair cushion, horsehair sofa, etc.

ΚΠ

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 304 The gordius is the seta equina, or horse-hair-worm, of the old writers.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxvii. 120 The very horse-hair seats of the chairs.

1852 E. M. Sewell Exper. of Life (1858) xiv. 95 A set of black horsehair chairs and a horsehair sofa.

1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 572 Strife of horse-hair-crested words.

1864 Earl of Derby tr. Homer Iliad vi. 546 Scar'd by the brazen helm and horse-hair plume.

1875 B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 61 Friction with horse hair gloves.

1897 Daily News 30 Apr. 3/3 The daughter of a horsehair dresser.

C2.

horsehair-lichen n. = horsetail lichen n. at horsetail n. Compounds 2.

horsehair snake n. U.S. = horsehair-worm n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Gordiacea > member of order Gordiodea

hairworm1658

horsehair-worm1753

horsehair snake1897

1897 Outing 30 434/2 The creature referred to as a mystery is what is termed the ‘horsehair snake’, in reality, a hairworm.

1949 Sci. Monthly Jan. 56/2 Another mythical serpent, confined to the rural scene, is the horsehair snake..the worm Paragordius varius.

1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XLII. 19 Horsehair snake. Actually a long slender worm (Gordius, sp.), which spends one portion of its life in the body of a large insect and the other in shallow water, as in a watering trough. Thus arose the folk belief that these worms were originally horsehairs.

horsehair-worm n. a hairworm or Gordius.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Gordiacea > member of order Gordiodea

hairworm1658

horsehair-worm1753

horsehair snake1897

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Horse Hair Worms.

Derivatives

ˈhorse-haired adj. covered or furnished with horsehair; in quot. 1887 = bewigged.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [adjective]

cheveluredc1485

wiggy1817

horse-haired1887

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Mar. 1/1 Glozing phrases..which horse-haired pedants of Attorney-Generals in every age have employed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	horsehair
释义	horsehairn. Brit. /ˈhɔːshɛː/, U.S. /ˈhɔrsˌhɛr/ Forms: see horse n. and hair n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., hair n. Etymology: < horse n. + hair n.Compare Middle High German rossehār (German Rosshaar), Old Icelandic hrosshár. a. A hair from the mane or tail of a horse. animated horsehair n. = horsehair-worm n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > tail > part of horsehaira1387 stern1575 strumple1598 strunt1610 truncheon1639 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > coat > mane or types of > hair from horsehaira1387 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 323 A briȝt swerd and a scharp euene aboue his heued by an hors here. 1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (1898) 155 Nothynge the Swerde held, Saue oone hors-here. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 28 A voyce in her eares which Horse-haires, and Calues-guts..can neuer amend [printed amed] . View more context for this quotation 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4064 (heading) Extract of a letter..concerning animated horse~hairs, rectifying a Vulgar Error. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Animated Horse-Hairs,..a sort of long and slender water-worm..generally, by the vulgar, supposed to be the hair fallen from a Horse's mane into the water. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 655 Fruit-stalks hardly thicker than horse hair. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 83 Suspended, by means of a horse-hair. b. A mass or collection of such hair.In quot. 1850 = legal verbiage, horsehair being use to make barrister's wigs. vegetable horsehair n. see quote. 1897. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > hair > specific type or of specific animal horsehairc1305 bristlec1314 brock-wool1500 camel's hair1771 fine hair1885 pig wool1892 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Bromeliaceae > [noun] bromelia1822 anonad1847 bromeliad1866 vegetable horsehair1897 c1305 Edmund Conf. 158 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 75 Seint Edmund werede strong here..Of hard hors-her ymaked. 1494 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 19 Preamb. Cussions stuffed with horse here. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 338 The Chynaes..they write with pencils made of horse hayre. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 91 The Hair cut from the manes and tails of Horses is considered and passed in London as Horse Hair, and no other. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets ii. 37 In spite of all this..blotting out of Heaven's sunlight by mountains of horsehair and officiality. 1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants II. 372 Tillandsia usneoides, L. (long moss, old man's beard, vegetable horsehair). Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as horsehair crest, horsehair-crested adj., horsehair-dresser, horsehair glove, horsehair plume, etc.; in sense ‘covered with a fabric woven of horsehair’, as horsehair chair, horsehair cushion, horsehair sofa, etc. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 304 The gordius is the seta equina, or horse-hair-worm, of the old writers. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxvii. 120 The very horse-hair seats of the chairs. 1852 E. M. Sewell Exper. of Life (1858) xiv. 95 A set of black horsehair chairs and a horsehair sofa. 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 572 Strife of horse-hair-crested words. 1864 Earl of Derby tr. Homer Iliad vi. 546 Scar'd by the brazen helm and horse-hair plume. 1875 B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 61 Friction with horse hair gloves. 1897 Daily News 30 Apr. 3/3 The daughter of a horsehair dresser. C2. horsehair-lichen n. = horsetail lichen n. at horsetail n. Compounds 2. horsehair snake n. U.S. = horsehair-worm n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Gordiacea > member of order Gordiodea hairworm1658 horsehair-worm1753 horsehair snake1897 1897 Outing 30 434/2 The creature referred to as a mystery is what is termed the ‘horsehair snake’, in reality, a hairworm. 1949 Sci. Monthly Jan. 56/2 Another mythical serpent, confined to the rural scene, is the horsehair snake..the worm Paragordius varius. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XLII. 19 Horsehair snake. Actually a long slender worm (Gordius, sp.), which spends one portion of its life in the body of a large insect and the other in shallow water, as in a watering trough. Thus arose the folk belief that these worms were originally horsehairs. horsehair-worm n. a hairworm or Gordius. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Gordiacea > member of order Gordiodea hairworm1658 horsehair-worm1753 horsehair snake1897 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Horse Hair Worms. Derivatives ˈhorse-haired adj. covered or furnished with horsehair; in quot. 1887 = bewigged. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [adjective] cheveluredc1485 wiggy1817 horse-haired1887 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Mar. 1/1 Glozing phrases..which horse-haired pedants of Attorney-Generals in every age have employed. 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