noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hǣr; akin to Old High German hār hair Date: before 12th century
1. a slender threadlike outgrowth of the epidermis of an animal, the hairy covering of an animal or a body part, haircloth ,
3. a minute distance or amount , a precise degree , nature , character , a filamentous structure that resembles hair , hairless adjective hairlessness noun hairlike adjective