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Hair"cloth` (-klth`), n. Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

Hair"dress`er (-drs`r), n. One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.

Haired (h‚rd), a. 1. Having hair. "A beast haired like a bear." Purchas.

2. In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired.

Hai"ren (h‚r"en), a. [AS. hren.] Hairy. [Obs.]

His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet.

J. Taylor.

Hair" grass` (grs`). (Bot.) A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.

Hair"i*ness (-*ns), n. The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. Johnson.

Hair"less, a. Destitute of hair. Shak.

Hair"pin` (-pn`), n. A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.

Hair"-salt` (-slt`), n. [A translation of G. haarsalz.] (Min.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

Hair"split`ter (-splt`tr), n. One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.

Hair"split`ting (-tng), a. Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n. The act or practice of making trivial distinctions.

The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading.

Charles Sumner.

Hair"spring` (-sprng`), n. (Horology) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

Hair"streak` (-strk`), n. A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).

Hair"tail` (-tl`), n. (Zoˆl.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepturus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.

Hair" worm` (w˚rm`). (Zoˆl.) A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius, resembling a hair. See Gordius.

Hair"y (-), a. Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge.

Milton.

Hai"ti*an (h"t*an), a. & n. See Haytian.

Ha"je (h‰"j), n. [Ar. hayya snake.] (Zoˆl.) The Egyptian asp or cobra (Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp.

Hake (hk), n. [See Hatch a half door.] A drying shed, as for unburned tile.

Hake, n. [Also haak.] [Akin to Norweg. hakefisk, lit., hook fish, Prov. E. hake hook, G. hecht pike. See Hook.] (Zoˆl.) One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling.

Hake (hk), v. i. To loiter; to sneak. [Prov. Eng.]