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Hair
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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):
(n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
(3):
(n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
(4):
(n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
(5):
(n.) A haircloth.
(6):
(n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
(7):
(n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
(8):
(n.) An 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).
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hair'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/h/hair.html. 1828.
