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.