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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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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...
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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...
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Hair-salt
·noun A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.
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Maid's hair
·- The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).
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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 splitter
A man's yard.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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Lady's bedstraw
·- The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo)...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lady's bower
·- A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).
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Lady's cloth
·add. ·- A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, ·etc.
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Lady's comb
·- An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely res...
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Lady's cushion
·- An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
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Lady's finger
·- The kidney vetch.
II. Lady's finger ·- One of the branchiae of the lobster.
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Lady's garters
·- Ribbon grass.
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Lady's laces
·- A slender climbing plant; dodder.
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Lady's mantle
·- A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), ·esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with ro...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lady's seal
·- The black bryony (Tamus communis).
II. Lady's seal ·- The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum v...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lady's slipper
·- Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lady's smock
·- A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.
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Lady's thimble
·- The <<Harebell>>.
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Lady's thumb
·- An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
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Lady's traces
·- ·Alt. of Ladies' tresses.
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Lady's Yard
Out of Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street, in Portsoken Ward (Lockie, 1816).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Lady's looking-glass
·- ·see Venus's looking-glass, under <<Venus>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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My Lady's Yard
See Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.