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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.

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Appendage 76% connected

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Cloth 76% connected

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made…

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Enation 76% connected

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

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Fabric 76% connected

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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Filament 76% connected

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Outgrowth 76% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Textile 76% connected

Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

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Narrower term 23

Beard 76% connected

The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

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Bristle 76% connected

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

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Brow 76% connected

The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.

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Bush 76% connected

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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Cilium 76% connected

See Cilia.

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Coat 76% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Coif 76% connected

A cap.

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Coiffure 76% connected

A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

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Cowlick 76% connected

A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

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Down 76% connected

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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Eyebrow 76% connected

The brow or hairy arch above the eye.

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Eyelash 76% connected

The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

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Forelock 76% connected

The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

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Foretop 76% connected

The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.

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Lash 76% connected

The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

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Lock 76% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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Mane 76% connected

The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Hor…

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Pelage 76% connected

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

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Pile 76% connected

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

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Seta 76% connected

Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes…

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Supercilium 76% connected

The eyebrow, or the region of the eyebrows.

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Vibrissa 76% connected

One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of t…

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Whisker 76% connected

One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.

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Derivationally related 2

Haired 74% connected

Having hair.

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Haired 74% connected

Having hair.

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Substance part 1

Keratin 70% connected

A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal ti…

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Containing whole 2

Mammal 70% connected

One of the Mammalia.

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Mammalian 70% connected

Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.

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Component part 3

Part 70% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Parting 70% connected

of Part

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Root 70% connected

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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Synonym 4

Fuzz 92% connected

To make drunk.

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Haircloth 92% connected

Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

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Tomentum 92% connected

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

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Whisker 92% connected

One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.

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