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A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).

Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.

A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius, resembling a hair. See Gordius.

Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. Milton.

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

See Coma Berenices, under Coma.

Of camel's hair. Camel's-hair pencil, a small brush used by painters in water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials. -- Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a cashmere shawl. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere.

chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.

The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.

To seat in a chair. Tennyson.

Having fair or light-colored hair.

A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs. Horsehair worm (Zoöl.), the hair worm or gordius.

A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.

A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.

The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).

in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair. Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass. -- Maiden tree. See Ginkgo.