Search the Dictionary

Of or pertaining to the hair. [R.] Blount.

Having hair; hairy.

Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.

Relating to the growth of hair. [R.]

Bearing hair; hairy. [R.]

Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. "Comate, crinite, caudate stars."

Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. T. Hook.

for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

Hairy. [R.]

Hairiness. [R.]

Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages. Azure-eyed and golden-haired, Forth the young crusaders fared. Longfellow.

A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly,…

The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

eir humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture. J. C. Shairp. The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture. Tylor. Culture fluid, a fluid in which the germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes o…

by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does notJ. C. Shairp