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n. A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Berenice's Locks, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. ] (Astron.) See Coma Berenices, under Coma. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. having black head hair; -- of people.
Syn. -- dark-haired, raven-haired. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel.
Syn. -- camel's hair. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of camel's hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

Camel's-hair pencil, a small brush used by painters in water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials. --
Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a cashmere shawl. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. chaiere, chaere, OF. chaiere, chaere, F. chaire pulpit, fr. L. cathedra chair, armchair, a teacher's or professor's chair, Gr. &unr_; down + &unr_; seat, &unr_; to sit, akin to E. sit. See Sit, and cf. Cathedral, chaise. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A movable single seat with a back. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

A chair of philology. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Think what an equipage thou hast in air,
And view with scorn two pages and a chair. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chair days, days of repose and age. --
To put into the chair, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay. --
To take the chair, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chaired p. pr. & vb. n. Chairing. ] 1. To place in a chair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To function as chairperson of (a meeting, committee, etc.); as, he chaired the meeting. [ PJC ]

n. a ski lift on which riders are seated.
Syn. -- chair lift. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Chairmen /plu>. 1. The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; -- same as chair{ 3 } or chairman{ 1 }, but used to achieve a sex-neutral register.
Syn. -- president, chairman, chairwoman, chair. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a female officer who presides at the meetings of a committee, meeting, or organization; a female chairperson.
Syn. -- president, chairman, chair, chairperson. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as brunet; as, a dark-haired beauty.
Syn. -- black-haired. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a folding chair, usually having arms and a full-length leg rest; -- used for relaxing on the deck of a ship, at poolside, etc. Also called steamer chair [ PJC ]

n. An armchair for ease or repose. “Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a device used for execution of criminals, consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body. This method of killing is called electrocution.
Syn. -- the chair, death chair, hot seat. [ PJC ]

v. t. To seat in a chair. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having fair or light-colored hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. favorite; considered especially talented or promising; as, the fair-haired boy of the literary set. [ prenominal ] [ informal ]
Syn. -- blue-eyed(prenominal), white-haired(prenominal), white-headed. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
Syn. -- gray, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, hoar, hoary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
Syn. -- gray, grey, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, hoar, hoary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. her, heer, hær, AS. h&aemacr_;r; akin to OFries. hēr, D. & G. haar, OHG. & Icel. hār, Dan. haar, Sw. hår; cf. Lith. kasa. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in vertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bot.) 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A haircloth. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Hairs is often used adjectively or in combination; as, hairbrush or hair brush, hair dye, hair oil, hairpin, hair powder, a brush, a dye, etc., for the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

Against the hair, in a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain. [ Obs. ] “You go against the hair of your professions.” Shak. --
Hair bracket (Ship Carp.), a molding which comes in at the back of, or runs aft from, the figurehead. --
Hair cells (Anat.), cells with hairlike processes in the sensory epithelium of certain parts of the internal ear. --
Hair compass,
Hair divider, a compass or divider capable of delicate adjustment by means of a screw. --
Hair glove, a glove of horsehair for rubbing the skin. --
Hair lace, a netted fillet for tying up the hair of the head. Swift. --
Hair line, a line made of hair; a very slender line. --
Hair moth (Zool.), any moth which destroys goods made of hair, esp. Tinea biselliella. --
Hair pencil, a brush or pencil made of fine hair, for painting; -- generally called by the name of the hair used; as, a camel's hair pencil, a sable's hair pencil, etc. --
Hair plate, an iron plate forming the back of the hearth of a bloomery fire. --
Hair powder, a white perfumed powder, as of flour or starch, formerly much used for sprinkling on the hair of the head, or on wigs. --
Hair seal (Zool.), any one of several species of eared seals which do not produce fur; a sea lion. --
Hair seating, haircloth for seats of chairs, etc. --
Hair shirt, a shirt, or a band for the loins, made of horsehair, and worn as a penance. --
Hair sieve, a strainer with a haircloth bottom. --
Hair snake. See Gordius. --
Hair space (Printing), the thinnest metal space used in lines of type. --
Hair stroke, a delicate stroke in writing. --
Hair trigger, a trigger so constructed as to discharge a firearm by a very slight pressure, as by the touch of a hair. Farrow. --
Not worth a hair, of no value. --
To a hair, with the nicest distinction. --
To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a compact mass of hair that forms in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur; as, the cat coughed up a hairball right on the new rug. [ wns=1 + 2 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) See Harebell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The chipping sparrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Harebrained.

a. Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a toiletry for the hair.
Syn. -- hairtonic, hair oil, hair grease. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Having hair. “A beast haired like a bear.” Purchas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. h&aemacr_;ren. ] Hairy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. J. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being hairy. [ PJC ]

a. Destitute of hair; bald. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. shaped like a hair; long and slender.
Syn. -- capillary. [ PJC ]

2. long and slender with a very fine internal diameter.
Syn. -- capillary. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. a very thin line. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the natural margin formed by hair on the head, especially the edge of growth of hair on the forehead; as, a receding hairline. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment; a toupee.
Syn. -- false hair, postiche, toupee. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A translation of G. haarsalz. ] (Min.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>. The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. [ Also spelled hairsbreadth. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes excessively fine or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. “The caviling hairsplitter.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making excessively fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning; overly subtle. -- n. The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading. Charles Sumner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Horology) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (Thecla rubi). [ 1913 Webster ]