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insectivore (Erinaceus Europæus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.…

Hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Haired. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Made of hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.

Hairiness. Burton.

Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.

Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer. To hitch up. (a) To fasten up. (b) To pull or raise with a jerk; as, a sailor hitches up his trousers. (c) To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare. [Colloq.]

White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.

A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.

savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak.

addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.

makes it impudence to deny. Locke. Where pride and impudence (in fashion knit) Usurp the chair of wit. B. Jonson.

he period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.…

peech and blood, characterized by tall stature, dolichocephaly, fair complexion with dark hair and eyes, plentiful beard, and narrow and prominent nose.

A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.