Definition of "hair" []

• Any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal. (noun)
• A growth of such filaments, as that forming the coat of an animal or covering the scalp of a human. (noun)
• A filamentous projection or bristle similar to a hair, such as a seta of an arthropod or an epidermal process of a plant. (noun)
• Fabric made from the hair of certain animals: a coat of alpaca hair. (noun)
• A minute distance or narrow margin: won by a hair. (noun)

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• "I wunner effen dis squirrel washed teh hair wif de Herbal Essences kind of shamp…..sham…..hair washing stuffs!"
• "Dublin, has a lock of Stella's hair, enclosed in a paper by Swift, on which are written, in the Dean's hand, the words: "_Only a woman's hair_.""
• "Let me touch their hair with my fingers … their hair…"