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d flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. Chaucer. And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. Spenser.

A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.

Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

See Harebell.

The chipping sparrow.

See Harebrained.

Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.

The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.

Having hair. "A beast haired like a bear." Purchas.

Hairy. [Obc.] His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. J. Taylor.

The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. Johnson.

Destitute of hair. Shak.

A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.

s excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.

The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading. Charles Sumner.

The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.