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The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric.

A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.

Glass threads or fibers formed by the wind from bits blown from frothy lava or from the tips of lava jets or from bits of liquid lava thrown into the air. It often collects in thick masses resembling tow.

A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.

Having shaggy hair. Shak.

In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.

To deprive of hair, or of hairs; as, to unhair hides for leather. I 'll unhair thy head. Shak.

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

upposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

hite, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, ele…

roup called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

[certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not." J. C. Shairp. "But Rugby is a very nice place all the same." T. Arnold. -- See also under All, n.

Loss of the hair; baldness.

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.

A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.

t, a cat, etc. Angora cat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.

That which annoys. A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak.