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Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.

A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut. [Written also kudu.]

To cover with lacquer. "Lacquer'd chair." Pope.

h the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.

Having a dense covering of long hair, like the foot of a hare.

Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.

Languid; drooping.[Obs.] Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. Milton. Lank hair, long, thin hair. Macaulay.

peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.

Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.

The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

. Swift. Lappet moth (Zoöl.), one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.

Consolida. The flower of the bee larkspur (D. elatum) has two petals bearded with yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee.

A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.

The division of mankind which embraces the smooth-haired races.

Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.

a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.Mycobacterium leprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination of antibiotics, b…

White; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.

he higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.

he housewife went about her work, or spun at her wheel, with a lilt upon her lips. J. C. Shairp.