<B>hairline, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a very thin line. <DD><B> 2. </B>the irregular outline where hair growth ends on the head or forehead. <BR> <I>Ex. I think you'd look better with the ears covered, and then the hair brought forward over the face here, and here, you see, to hide the uneven hairline (Punch).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a cloth woven with a very fine stripe. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Printing.) a very fine line, especially a stroke or part of a letter thinner than other parts. <DD><I>adj. </I> very narrow or close. <BR> <I>Ex. a hairline decision.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hairnet">
<B>hair net,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a net worn to keep one's hair in place. </DL>
<A NAME="hairoil">
<B>hair oil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an oil or oily preparation for dressing the hair. </DL>
<A NAME="hairpiece">
<B>hairpiece, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=toupee.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a small wig worn by women as a hair accessory. </DL>
<A NAME="hairpin">
<B>hairpin, </B>noun, adjective, verb, <B>-pinned,</B> <B>-pinning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a pin, usually a U-shaped piece of wire, shell, or plastic, used by women and girls to keep their hair in place. <DD><B> 2. </B>a sharp bend in a road, river, or other course, likened to a hairpin. <DD><I>adj. </I> shaped like a hairpin. <BR> <I>Ex. a hairpin turn.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make a hairpin turn. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Western U.S.) to mount a horse. <DD><B> 3. </B>to pick a lock of with a hairpin. </DL>
<A NAME="hairraiser">
<B>hair-raiser, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a hair-raising thing; something that causes fear or terror. </DL>
<A NAME="hairraising">
<B>hair-raising, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) making the hair stand on end from fright; terrifying. <BR> <I>Ex. a hair-raising ghost story.</I> adv. <B>hair-raisingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="hairsbreadth">
<B>hair's-breadth</B> or <B>hairsbreadth, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=hairbreadth.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> a very small space or distance. <BR> <I>Ex. Our team was within a hair's-breadth of winning.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hairseal">
<B>hair seal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the earless seals, having coarse hair with no soft underlying fur, and little hunted for their pelts. </DL>
<A NAME="hairshirt">
<B>hair shirt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a rough shirt or girdle made of horsehair, worn as a penance. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) an imposing of penance, austerity, or self-sacrifice. <BR> <I>Ex. If low real interest rates and falling inflation are so important ... then the hair shirt is the only answer (Financial Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a person who advocates austere and self-sacrificing remedies. <BR> <I>Ex. Although Orwell was certainly a bit of a hair shirt himself, he seemed to have a hair shirt's impatience with other hair shirts (Christian Science Monitor).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hairslide">
<B>hair-slide, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a barrette. </DL>
<A NAME="hairsnake">
<B>hair snake,</B> =hairworm.</DL>
<A NAME="hairspace">
<B>hair space,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Printing.) the thinnest space used in typesetting to separate letters. </DL>
<A NAME="hairsplitter">
<B>hairsplitter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes too fine distinctions. </DL>
<A NAME="hairsplitting">
<B>hairsplitting, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> making too fine distinctions. </DL>
<A NAME="hairspray">
<B>hair spray,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a spray used on hair to keep the setting dry and in place. </DL>
<A NAME="hairspring">
<B>hairspring, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fine, hairlike spring that regulates the motion of the balance wheel in a watch or clock. </DL>
<A NAME="hairstreak">
<B>hairstreak, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various small butterflies with hairlike markings on the wings. </DL>
<A NAME="hairstroke">
<B>hair stroke,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a very thin stroke or line in writing or printing. </DL>
<A NAME="hairstyle">
<B>hairstyle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a style of wearing the hair. <BR> <I>Ex. an Afro hairstyle.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hairstylist">
<B>hairstylist, </B>noun. =hairdresser.</DL>
<A NAME="hairtail">
<B>hairtail, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a marine fish with a silvery, bandlike body ending in a hairlike tail, common in tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters. </DL>
<A NAME="hairtransplant">
<B>hair transplant</B> or <B>transplantation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the surgical procedure of removing plugs of hair follicles from the sides and back of a person's head and grafting them into bald or sparse spots on top of the head. See also <B>hair implant.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="hairtrigger">
<B>hair trigger,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a trigger that operates by very slight pressure. </DL>
<A NAME="hairtrigger">
<B>hair-trigger, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a hair trigger. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) set off by the slightest stimulus. </DL>
<A NAME="hairweaver">
<B>hair weaver,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who does hair weaving. </DL>
<A NAME="hairweaving">
<B>hair weaving,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the sewing of a hairpiece or toupee into a person's remaining hair. </DL>
<A NAME="hairworm">
<B>hairworm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various slender roundworms, parasitic in insects when young, free-swimming when adult, often found in ponds and rivers. </DL>
<A NAME="hairy">
<B>hairy, </B>adjective, <B>hairier,</B> <B>hairiest,</B> noun, pl. <B>hairies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>covered with hair; having much hair. <BR> <I>Ex. hairy hands, a hairy ape.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or like hair. <BR> <I>Ex. the hairy feel of a stuffed teddy bear.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>characterized by hairlike growths, as a plant. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang.) hair-raising; frightening. <BR> <I>Ex. a hairy nightmare, hairy adventures.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (Slang.) a man who wears his hair long. adv. <B>hairily.</B> noun <B>hairiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="hairymammoth">
<B>hairy mammoth,</B> =woolly mammoth.</DL>
<A NAME="hairyvetch">
<B>hairy vetch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a vetch that can withstand very cold winters, grown widely in the United States and in Europe to produce green manure. </DL>
<A NAME="hairywoodpecker">
<B>hairy woodpecker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a common North American woodpecker with white markings on a black back, identical to the downy woodpecker except larger. </DL>
<A NAME="haitian">
<B>Haitian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Haiti, its people, or their language. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a native or inhabitant of Haiti. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Haitian Creole.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="haitiancreole">
<B>Haitian Creole,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the native language of Haiti, a dialect of French; Haitian. </DL>
<A NAME="hajj">
<B>hajj</B> or <B>haj, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pilgrimage to Mecca, required of every Moslem at least once in his life. Also, <B>hadj.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="hajji">
<B>hajji, </B>noun, pl. <B>-jis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a Moslem who has made his pilgrimage to Mecca. <DD><B> b. </B>Often, <B>Hajji.</B> the title given to such a one. <DD><B> 2. </B>a Greek or Armenian who has visited the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem. Also, <B>hadji.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="haka">
<B>haka, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a native dance performed in New Zealand with traditional actions or poses, often accompanied by song. </DL>
<A NAME="hake">
<B>hake, </B>noun, pl. <B>hakes</B> or (collectively) <B>hake.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a group of fishes related to and resembling the cod, but much smaller, such as the silver hake, a food fish of New England. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various related marine fishes, such as the white hake, and the squirrel hake of New England; codling. </DL>
<A NAME="haker">
<B>haker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fisherman or fishing boat engaged in catching hake. </DL>
<A NAME="hakham">
<B>hakham, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a wise man (an official designation among Sephardic Jews, synonymous with <I>rabbi</I>). </DL>
<A NAME="hakim">
<B>hakim</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in Arabia, India, and other Moslem countries: <DD><B> 1. </B>a wise or learned man. <DD><B> 2. </B>a doctor. </DL>
<A NAME="hakim">
<B>hakim</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly in Arabia, India, and other Moslem countries) a ruler; judge; governor. </DL>
<A NAME="hakka">
<B>Hakka, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ka</B> or <B>-kas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a Chinese people living principally in southeastern China, especially in Kwangtung province, thought to be descendants of migrants from northern China in the 1200's. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of this people. <DD><B> 3. </B>the Chinese dialect spoken by this people. </DL>
<B>halacha</B> or <B>halachah, </B>noun, pl. <B>halachas,</B> <B>halachoth.</B> =halakah.</DL>
<A NAME="halachic">
<B>halachic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with halakah. </DL>
<A NAME="halachist">
<B>halachist, </B>noun. =halakist.</DL>
<A NAME="halakah">
<B>halakah, </B>noun, pl. <B>halakoth.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Judaism.) <DD><B> 1a. </B>(in rabbinical literature) usage; tradition. <DD><B> b. </B>Often, <B>Halakah.</B> the body of traditional or oral laws of the Jews, having the force of legal custom and supplementing or interpreting the law of the Scripture, with Haggadah constituting the Talmudic and Judaic lore. The Mishnah is the basic collection of the Halakah. <DD><B> 2. </B>a single tradition or law. <DD><B> 3. </B>an explanation or decision by a rabbi on a matter not specifically covered by Mosaic or Talmudic law but deduced from them. </DL>
<A NAME="halakha">
<B>halakha, </B>noun, pl. <B>halakhoth.</B> =halakah.</DL>
<A NAME="halakist">
<B>halakist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who is an authority on, or renders, halakoth. </DL>
<A NAME="halal">
<B>halal, </B>verb, <B>-lalled,</B> <B>-lalling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to slaughter (animals) for food in the manner prescribed by Moslem law. <DD><I>noun </I> (in Moslem law) lawful food. </DL>
<A NAME="halation">
<B>halation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Photography.) the spreading of light beyond its proper boundaries in a negative, such as the spreading around a white object photographed in sunlight, caused by reflection from the supporting layer under the emulsion of the film. </DL>
<A NAME="halazone">
<B>halazone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white powder containing chlorine, used in tablet form to disinfect drinking water. </DL>
<A NAME="halberd">
<B>halberd, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a weapon that is both a spear and a battle-ax, used in warfare in the 1400's and 1500's. </DL>
