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The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositæ; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.

g of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.

but different orthography and different meaning; -- said of certain words, as al and awl; hair and hare, etc.

d into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

ual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. Shak. [/Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak. Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne. Chaucer.

A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.

The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).

A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. With subtile pencil depainted was this storie. Chaucer.

Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.

Surrounded by a circle of hairs, or projections of any kind.

A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig. Shak.

The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person. With his white hair and splendid physique. Mrs. Stowe.

An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped.

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. Cowper.

Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.

One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.

Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.

Resembling hairs or down.