单词	hair
释义	hair I. \ˈha(a)](ə)r, ˈhe], ]ə\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English her, heer, hare, heir, hair, from Old English hǣr; akin to Old Frisian hēr hair, Old High German & Old Norse hār, and perhaps to Middle Irish carrach scurfy, mangy, Lithuanian šerys bristle, Sanskrit kapucchala hair on the back of the head 1. : a slender threadlike outgrowth of the epidermis of an animal; especially : one of the usually pigmented filaments that form the characteristic coat of a mammal, contain neither blood vessels nor nerves, and are composed chiefly of elongated and modified epidermal cells covered by a cuticle of flat imbricated cells that produce a rough surface — compare bristle, hair follicle, root, spine 2.  a. : the hairy covering of an animal or of some particular part of him; specifically : the coating of fairly coarse and relatively straight individual hairs on a human head — distinguished from fur and wool  b. : haircloth 3.  a.   (1) : a minute distance or amount : trifle    < won by a hair >   (2) : a precise degree : nicety    < aligned to a hair >  b. : something likened to hair   < hairs of fire came up through the busted plates — Saul Bellow >   < eucalyptus … tossed their purple-black hair of leaves in the air — Eve Langley > 4. obsolete : kind, nature, character  < the quality and hair of our attempt brooks no division — Shakespeare > 5.  a. : a filamentous structure that resembles hair   < leaf hair >  b. : bow hair • - against the hair - hair of the dog - in one's hair - in the hair - one's hair down - out of one's hair [hair 1: 1 shaft, 2 sebaceous gland, 3 epidermis, 4 dermis, 5 hair follicle, 6 bulb, 7 papilla] II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) transitive verb 1. : to remove hair from  < hair a hide > 2. : to apply hair to  < hair a doll >  < hair a fiddlestick > : cover with or as if with hair  < a thick, white hand … haired over with fine reddish fuzz — William Faulkner > intransitive verb : to produce hair or something resembling hair  < these woods would not hair up — Scientific American >
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