Definition of hair

"hair" in the noun sense

1. hair

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"

2. hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair, whisker

a very small distance or space

"they escaped by a hair's-breadth"

"they lost the election by a whisker"

3. hair, fuzz, tomentum

filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

"peach fuzz"

4. hair, pilus

any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

"there is a hair in my soup"

5. haircloth, hair

cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

6. hair

a filamentous projection or process on an organism

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Quotations for hair

Come, slit me this hair. [ Proverb ]

Even a hair casts its shadow. [ German Proverb ]

A hair of the dog that bit him. [ Proverb ]

Gray hairs are death's blossoms. [ Schiller ]

Thy fair hair my heart enchained. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

Beauty draws us with a single hair. [ Pope ]

When you see fair hair, be pitiful. [ George Eliot ]

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [ Goethe ]

Golden hair, like sunlight streaming
On the marble of her shoulder. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Take a hair of the dog that bit you. [ Proverb ]

No hair so small but hath his shadow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who have not saved some trifling thing
More prized than jewels rare,
A faded flower, a broken ring,
A tress of golden hair. [ Ellen C. Howarth ]

Our rocks are rough, but smiling there
The acacia waves her yellow hair,
Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less
For flow'ring in a wilderness. [ Moore ]

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair. [ Addison ]

He could distinguish and divide
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. [ Butler ]

Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,
(Green leaves upon her golden hair!),
Green grasses through the yellow sheaves
Of autumn corn are not more fair. [ Oscar Wilde ]

Her cap of velvet could not hold
The tresses of her hair of gold.
That flowed and floated like the stream.
And fell in masses down her neck. [ Longfellow ]

Give me a look, give me a face.
That makes simplicity a grace:
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. [ Ben Jonson ]

Robed in the long night of her deep hair. [ Tennyson ]

I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A hair of the dog that bit us last night. [ John Heywood ]

And her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare. [ Pope ]

Sweet girl graduates, in their golden hair. [ Tennyson ]

There is many a man hath more hair than wit [ William Shakespeare ]

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! [ William Shakespeare ]

His hair just grizzled as in a green old age. [ Dryden ]

An angel face! its sunny wealth of hair,
In radiant ripples, bathed the graceful throat
And dimpled shoulders. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Let us respect white hair - especially our own. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world. [ Joaquin Miller ]

There is not an hair so small but hath its shadow. [ Proverb ]

Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. [ William Shakespeare ]

One hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen. [ Proverb ]

At last the golden oriental gate
Of greatest heaven began to open fair;
And Phoebus, fresh as bridegroom to his mate,
Came dancing forth shaking his dewy hair,
And hurled his glistering beams through gloomy air. [ Spenser ]

The robe which curious Nature weaves to hang upon the head. [ Decker ]

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

The glittering tresses which, now shaken loose, Showered gold. [ Owen Meredith ]

Ha! let the devil seize thee by a hair, and thou art his forever. [ Lessing ]

The frog sings; and yet she has neither hair nor wool to cover her. [ Proverb ]

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound. [ Proverb ]

Her luxuriant hair. It was like the sweep of a swift wing in visions! [ Willis ]

All the joys in the world cannot take one grey hair out of our heads. [ Proverb ]

We are charmed by neatness of person; let not thy hair be out of order. [ Ovid ]

Whose every little ringlet thrilled, as if with soul and passion filled! [ Moore ]

A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. [ Lycurgus ]

Make false hair, and thatch your poor thin roofs with burthens of the dead. [ William Shakespeare ]

Loose his beard and hoary hair streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air. [ Gray ]

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. [ Martial ]

The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness. [ Bible ]

And when obedient nature knows his will, a fly, a grapestone, or a hair can kill. [ Prior ]

It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [ Cicero ]

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. [ Lowell ]

His hair is of a good color, an excellent color; your chestnut was ever the only color. [ William Shakespeare ]

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down - vast monument of strength. [ Milton ]

Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek like gold-hued cloudflakes on the rosy morn. [ Bailey ]

Her hair down-gushing in an armful flows, And floods her ivory neck, and glitters as she goes. [ Allan Cunningham ]

One sneers at curls when one has no more hair; one slanders apples when one has no more teeth. [ A. Karr ]

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. [ George Villiers ]

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. [ Bancroft ]

Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. [ Herder ]

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. [ Luther ]

Her hair was not more sunny than her heart, though like a natural golden coronet it circled her dear head with careless art. [ Lowell ]

Her golden locks she roundly did uptie in braided trammels, that no looser hairs did out of order stray about her dainty ears. [ Spenser ]

Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a simple knot was tied above - sweet negligence, unheeded bait of love! [ Dryden ]

I'll give thrice so much land. To any well deserving friend; But in the way of bargain, mark me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oppose kindness to perverseness. The heavy sword will not cut soft silk; by using sweet words and gentleness you may lead an elephant with a hair. [ Saadi ]

Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. [ Hitopadesa ]

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. [ Seneca ]

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Oh! woe to him who first had the cruelty to ridicule the name of old maid, a name which recalls so many sorrowful deceptions, so many sufferings, so much destitution! Woe to him who finds a target for his sarcasm in an involuntary misfortune, and who crowns white hair with thorns! [ E. Souvestre ]

Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature, - may almost say, I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]

If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]

hair in Scrabble®

The word hair is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters hair:

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hair in Words With Friends™

The word hair is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters hair:

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Words within the letters of hair

2 letter words in hair (5 words)

3 letter words in hair (1 word)

4 letter words in hair (1 word)

hair + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence hair

Word Growth involving hair

Shorter words in hair

ai air

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Longer words containing hair

camelhair camelhairs

chair armchair armchairs

chair bathchair bathchairs

chair bedchair bedchairs

chair benchchair benchchairs

chair chairback chairbacks

chair chaircover chaircovers

chair chaired cochaired

chair chaired unchaired

chair chairing cochairing

chair chairing unchairing

chair chairladies

chair chairlady

chair chairless

chair chairlift chairlifts

chair chairmaker chairmakers

chair chairmaking

chair chairman chairmanship chairmanships

chair chairman chairmanship cochairmanship

chair chairman cochairman cochairmanship

chair chairman subchairman

chair chairman vicechairman

chair chairmen cochairmen

chair chairmen subchairmen

chair chairpeople

chair chairperson chairpersons cochairpersons

chair chairperson cochairperson cochairpersons

chair chairs armchairs

chair chairs bathchairs

chair chairs bedchairs

chair chairs benchchairs

chair chairs cochairs

chair chairs deckchairs

chair chairs headchairs

chair chairs highchairs

chair chairs pushchairs

chair chairs sidechairs

chair chairs unchairs sunchairs

chair chairs wheelchairs

chair chairs wingchairs

chair chairwoman cochairwoman

chair chairwomen cochairwomen

chair cochair cochaired

chair cochair cochairing

chair cochair cochairman cochairmanship

chair cochair cochairmen

chair cochair cochairperson cochairpersons

chair cochair cochairs

chair cochair cochairwoman

chair cochair cochairwomen

chair deckchair deckchairs

chair headchair headchairs

chair highchair highchairs

chair pushchair pushchairs

chair sidechair sidechairs

chair unchair sunchair sunchairs

chair unchair unchaired

chair unchair unchairing

chair unchair unchairs sunchairs

chair wheelchair wheelchairbound

chair wheelchair wheelchairs

chair wingchair wingchairs

crosshair crosshairs

dehair dehairer dehairers

grayhair grayhaired

hairball hairballs

hairband hairbands

hairbell hairbells

hairbrain hairbrained

hairbreadth hairbreadths

hairbrush hairbrushes

haircap haircaps

haircare

haircloth haircloths

haircut haircuts

haircut haircutter haircutters

haircut haircutting haircuttings

hairdo hairdos

hairdress hairdressed

hairdress hairdresser hairdressers

hairdress hairdresses

hairdress hairdressing

hairdrier hairdriers

hairdryer hairdryers

haired blondhaired

haired chaired cochaired

haired chaired unchaired

haired fairhaired

haired flaxenhaired

haired grayhaired

haired longhaired

haired shaggyhaired

haired shorthaired

haired wirehaired

haired woollyhaired

haired woolyhaired

hairier

hairiest

hairiness

hairless chairless

hairless hairlessness

hairlike

hairline hairlines

hairlock hairlocks

hairnet hairnets

hairpiece hairpieces

hairpin hairpins

hairraising

hairs camelhairs

hairs chairs armchairs

hairs chairs bathchairs

hairs chairs bedchairs

hairs chairs benchchairs

hairs chairs cochairs

hairs chairs deckchairs

hairs chairs headchairs

hairs chairs highchairs

hairs chairs pushchairs

hairs chairs sidechairs

hairs chairs unchairs sunchairs

hairs chairs wheelchairs

hairs chairs wingchairs

hairs crosshairs

hairs hairsbreadth hairsbreadths

hairs hairsplits

hairs hairsplitter hairsplitters

hairs hairsplitting hairsplittings

hairs hairspray hairsprays

hairs hairstone hairstones

hairs hairstreak hairstreaks

hairs hairstyle hairstyler hairstylers

hairs hairstyle hairstyles

hairs hairstyling hairstylings

hairs hairstylist hairstylists

hairs horsehairs

hairs maidenhairs

hairs shorthairs

hairs underhairs

hairtail hairtails

hairtrigger hairtriggered

hairtrigger hairtriggering

hairtrigger hairtriggers

hairweave hairweaved

hairweave hairweaver hairweavers

hairweave hairweaves

hairweaving hairweavings

hairworm hairworms

hairy nonhairy

horsehair horsehairs

longhair longhaired

maidenhair maidenhairs

mohair

shorthair shorthaired

shorthair shorthairs

underhair underhairs

wirehair wirehaired