hair

hair has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• 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.
• 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.
• n.. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
• 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.
• 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).
• n.. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
• n.. A haircloth.
• n.. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
• n.. a filamentous projection or process on an organism
• n.. cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
• n.. any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"
• n.. a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"