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Definition of Hair
Hair
The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.

Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.

A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.

A haircloth.

Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.


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Hair Quotations
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
Audrey Hepburn

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
John Lennon

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Jimi Hendrix


Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Erma Bombeck

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
Taylor Swift

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
Adele

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
Lady Gaga

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
Richard M. Nixon

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Gustave Flaubert

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
Hillary Clinton

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.
Hillary Clinton

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff.
Shane West

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Larry David

More Hair Quotations

Hair Translations
hair in Afrikaans is hare
hair in Dutch is haardos, haar
hair in Finnish is hius
hair in French is chevelure, cheveux, cheveu, poil
hair in German is Haar
hair in Italian is capelli, pettinante, capello
hair in Latin is capillus, saeta, crinis
hair in Spanish is cabello, pelo






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