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▸ noun: (uncountable) 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.
▸ noun: (zoology, countable) 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.
▸ noun: (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
▸ noun: (countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
▸ noun: (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
▸ noun: (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
▸ noun: (slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove the hair from.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
▸ verb: To string the bow for a violin.
▸ noun: A surname.
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