Hair

Noun

 * 1)  A pigmented keratinaceous growth that forms thin spires and grows out from a follicle on the human head.
 * Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. - Geoffrey Chaucer
 * And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. - Edmund Spenser
 * 1)  The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
 * The hair on a bear makes a warm fur coat.
 * She said she couldn't go out with me Friday - she had to wash her hair.
 * 1) *1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
 * 1)  A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates.  Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
 * 2)  A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.  Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
 * 3)  Haircloth; a hair shirt.
 * 4) * c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Second Nun's Tale", Canterbury Tales:
 * She, ful devout and humble in hir corage, / Under hir robe of gold, that sat ful faire, / Hadde next hir flessh yclad hir in an haire.
 * 1) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
 * I requyre you take thys hayre that was thys holy mannes and put hit nexte thy skynne, and hit shall prevayle the gretly.
 * 1)  Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
 * Just a little louder please - turn that knob a hair to the right.

Derived terms

 * against the hair
 * bad hair day
 * bed hair
 * curl someone's hair
 * facial hair
 * fair-haired
 * get in somebody's hair
 * hair bracket
 * hairbreadth, hairsbreadth
 * hair brush, hairbrush
 * haircare, hair care
 * hair cells
 * hair-curling
 * haircut
 * hairdo
 * hairdresser
 * hair dryer
 * hair dye
 * hair gel
 * hair glove


 * hair lace
 * hairless
 * hair line, hairline
 * hair moss
 * hair moth
 * hairnet
 * hair of the dog
 * hair pencil
 * hairpiece
 * hairpin
 * hair plate
 * hair powder
 * hair-raising
 * hair seal
 * hair seating
 * hair shirt
 * hair sieve
 * hair snake
 * hair space
 * hairspray, hair spray


 * hair stroke
 * hairstyle
 * hair-trigger
 * hairy
 * head of hair
 * hide nor hair, neither hide nor hair
 * horsehair
 * keep your hair on
 * let one's hair down
 * make somebody's hair curl
 * make somebody's hair stand on end
 * not turn a hair
 * not worth a hair
 * part one's hair
 * pubic hair
 * put hair on somebody's chest
 * split hairs
 * tear one's hair out
 * to a hair

Related terms

 * haircut
 * hairy
 * hirsute

Adjectives for Hair
abnormal; abominable; abounding; abundant; agglutinated; alluring; amber; amorous; ashblonde; ash-colored; asthetic; auburn;  back-blown;   backward-streaming bad; battling; beautiful; bleached; blowing blond; blue-black; bobbed; boyish; braided brick-colored;  bright;  bristling;  brittle; bronzed; brunette; brushed; bushy; carefully-brushed; careless;  carroty;  chestnut; close-curling; close-cut; close-trimmed; clustering; coal-black; coiled; colored; copious; coppery; corn-colored; correct; cottony; crinkly; crisp; crownless; cumbersome; curled; dabbled; dark; dazzling; dewy; disarranged; dirty; discolored; disheveled; disordered; drab; dressed; dripping; drowning; dull; dusky; dusty; dyed; ebon; effulg¬ent; elaborately-dressed; electrified; erect entangled; excessive; faded; fair; falling fiery; filthy; fine; finespun; fiamelike; flat tened; flaxen; flecked; floating; flowing fluffy; fluttering; flying; forlorn; frizzed frowzy; fussy; fuzzy; garlanded; glamorous; gleaming; glinting; glittering; glorious glossy; golden; gorgeous; gray; graying greasy; grimy; grizzled; haggard; hard harsh; hay-colored; hazel; heavy; helmeted hempy; henna; hoary; honey-colored; horrent; horrible; horrid; impeccable; impetuous; incredible; iron-gray; jet; jet-black; jeweled; kinky; knotted; lambent; lank; lifeless; light; limp; long; loosening; loose-waved; lovely; luminous; lustrous; luxuriant; mahogany; marcelled; marvelous; massive; matted; metallic; mis-dressed; misty; mortal; mouse-colored; muddy; mussed; mustard-colored;  neat;   neglected;  nut-brown; objectionable; oily; odorous; over-bleached; overgrown; overlong; pale; pal¬led; pallid; palsied; parted; pendulous; perfumed; plaited; plentiful; plastered; pomaded; poppied; portentous; powdered; precious; prematurely-gray; prim; princely; problematical; prodigious; profuse; puffed; queenly; quiet; radiant; ragged; raven; ravishing; rebellious; reddish; reddled; refractory; reverend; ribboned; rich; riotous; rippling; romantic; rough; ruffled; rumpled; russet; rusty; sandy; satiny; scant; scattered; scented; scorched; scraggly; sculptured; shadowy; shaggy; sheeny; shining; shingled; short; short-cropped; silken; silver-gilt; silvery; sleek; slender; slicked; sluttish; smoky; smoothed; smothering; snowy; soft; soggy; spiky; spilling; sprouting; starchy; steel-gray; stiff; stiff-looking; straggly; straight; straw-colored; streaked; subtle; streaming; strength-giving; stringy; strong; stubbly; stubby; sun-blanched; sunny; sun-bleached; sustaining; swart; sylvan; swarthy; sweaty; taffy; tangled; tawny; thick; tidy; time-hallowed; tiny; tousled; tow-colored; tumbled; turbulent; twining; twisted; two-toned; unbound; uncompromising; unconquered; uncurled; undone; undulating; unhealthy; unkempt; unkinked; unmanageable; unruly; untidy; unwashed; usurping; vegetable; velvety; venerable; vibrant; vivid; voluminous; waved; wavy; waxed; well-brushed; well-known; weltering; wet; wild; wind-blown; wind-rumpled; wind-whipped; wiry; wondrous; wreathless; youthful; zephyr-blown; burnished.

Verbs for Hair
arrange—; beribbon—; braid—; curl— deck—; discipline—; dishevel—; fluff out— glue down—; groom—; ruffle—; rumple— train—;  whisk  back—;  —bristles;  — frames; —gleams; —glistens; —glows; — luxuriates; —projects; —ripples; —shimmers; —shines; —straggles; —waves.

Thesaurus
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, ace, animal fiber, artificial fiber, atom, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, bowshot, braids, brass farthing, brief span, bristle, button, cambric tea, capillament, cent, cilium, cirrus, close quarters, close range, closeness, coat, cobweb, confinement, crack, crowdedness, curio, dab, denier, dishwater, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, earreach, earshot, farce, farthing, feather, fiber, fibrilla, fig, filament, filamentule, flagellum, fleabite, fleck, fleece, flyspeck, folderol, fraction, fragment, fribble, frippery, fur, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, gobbet, gossamer, grain, granule, groat, gruel, gunshot, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, halfpenny, handful, hank, hill of beans, horsehair, house of cards, incapaciousness, inch, incommodiousness, iota, jest, joke, jot, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, limitation, little, little bit, little ways, locks, mane, matchwood, milk and water, minikin, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, mockery, modicum, molecule, molehill, mote, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pelt, peppercorn, picayune, pile, pin, pinch, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pistol shot, pittance, point, pubescence, pubic hair, rap, red cent, reed, restrictedness, restriction, rope of sand, row of pins, rush, sand castle, scruple, setula, shag, shit, short distance, short piece, short way, skein, slenderness, smidgen, smitch, snap, sneeshing, sou, span, speck, spitting distance, spoonful, spot, step, straitness, strand, straw, strictness, suture, tendril, thimbleful, thread, threadlet, tight squeeze, tightness, tiny bit, tittle, toy, trace, tresses, trifle, trifling amount, trinket, trivia, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, water, web, whim-wham, whisker, whit, wool

Etymology
her:, heer:, hær:, from hær:, from  (compare West Frisian hier:, / haar:, Swedish hår:), from  'rough hair, bristle' (compare  carrach: 'scurfy, mangy',  šerys: 'bristle, animal hair',  шерсть: (šerstĭ) 'wool',  kapucchala 'napehair, shorthairs').

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Amharic: ፀጉር
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Basque:
 * Bengali: চুল
 * Bosnian: kosa
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cabell
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan: ,
 * Croatian: kosa ; vlasi
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: haro, hararo
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: ɖa
 * Finnish: ; ;
 * French: cheveu, chevelure
 * Old French:
 * Georgian: თმა (tma)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שערה (seʿārā)
 * Hindi:, केश (keś)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: capillo
 * Irish: gruaig
 * Italian: ;
 * Japanese: 髪の毛 (かみのけ, kaminoke), 髪 (かみ, kami)
 * Kamba:
 * Kannada: ಕೇಶ (kēśa)
 * Kikuyu:


 * Korean: 머리칼 (meorikal), 머리카락 (meorikarak)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: capillus,
 * Latvian: mats, mati
 * Lithuanian:, plaukas
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Luxembourgish: Hor, Hoer
 * Macedonian:,  прамен (strand of hair),   (single piece of hair)
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (mu)
 * Polish: włosy
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: chavels
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: केश (kéśa)
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian: kosa
 * Sicilian: capiddu (individual), capiddi, zazzira
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:, pelo
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: phóna
 * Telugu: వెంట్రుకలు(vemtrukalu),జుట్టు (juTTu)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: saç
 * Uyghur:
 * Volapük: her, hel
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: hier


 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bengali: পশম
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: pèl
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Croatian: dlaka ; krzno  ; dlake
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: ɖa,, fũ
 * Finnish: karvoitus, karvat
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: τρίχες (tríkhes)
 * Hebrew: שיער (seʿār)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: pilo
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 毛 (け, ke)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: capillus,
 * Latvian: spalva, vilna
 * Lithuanian: plaukai, vilnos, gaurai, šeriai
 * Luxembourgish: Hoer, Buuschten
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Polish: włosy
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian: păr (de pe corp),, blană (zool.)
 * Romansch: chavels
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: krzno ; dlake
 * Sicilian: pila
 * Slovak: srsť
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: రోమాలు(roomaalu)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Volapük: herem
 * West Frisian: hier


 * Armenian: մազ
 * Basque:
 * Croatian: dlaka ; vlas
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * German:
 * Greek: τρίχα (tríkha)
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:


 * Latin: pilus
 * Latvian: mats
 * Lithuanian: plaukas
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: pelo
 * Romansch: chavel
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * West Frisian: hier


 * : qime, flok
 * : blev
 * : tague
 * : hulu
 * : crinis
 * : volo
 * : huru
 * : केस
 * : केस


 * : uru
 * : păr
 * : pilu
 * : (Vaaru)
 * : vlasy
 * : nywele
 * : buhok
 * : mudi
 * : వెంట్రుకలు (veMTrukalu), జుట్టు (juTTu)
 * : 'aba

Anagrams

 * Hira
 * riah