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Splitter
·noun One who, or that which, splits.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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splitter
n.
a wood-cutter, cutting timberin the bush, and splitting it into posts and rails, palingsor shing...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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splitter
A man engaged in the Newfoundland fisheries to receive the fish from the header, and, with a sharp k...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Hair
·noun A <<Haircloth>>.
II. Hair ·noun A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
III. Hair ·n...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hair
1) The Egyptians let the hair of their head and beard grow only when they were in mourning, shaving ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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hair
The cold nipping wind called haar in the north: as in Beaumont and Fletcher,
"Here all is cold as ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Hair
The Hebrews were fully alive to the importance of the hair as an element of personal beauty. Long ha...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Phase splitter
·add. ·- A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in ph...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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beard splitter
A man much given to wenching.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whisker splitter
A man of intrigue.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Berenice's Hair
·add. ·- ·see Coma Berenices, under <<Coma>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hair grass
·- A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hair-brown
·adj Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of r...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hair-salt
·noun A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lady's hair
·- A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Maid's hair
·- The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pele's hair
·add. ·- Glass threads or fibers formed by the wind from bits blown from frothy lava or from the tip...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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hair-trigger
n.
a Tasmanian name for any plantof genus Stylidium. Called also Trigger-plant,and Jack in a Box (q...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hair-bracket
The moulding at the back of the figure-head.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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hair-trigger
A trigger to a gun-lock, so delicately adjusted that the slightest touch will discharge the piece.
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The Sailor's Word-Book