Coll
(v. t.) To embrace. |
Hair
(n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body. |
Hair
(n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. |
Hair
(n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes |
Hair
(n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. |
Hair
(n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar). |
Hair
(n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. |
Hair
(n.) A haircloth. |
Hair
(n.) Any very small distance, or degree |
Hair'sbreadth
() The diameter or breadth of a hair |
Hair-brown
(a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Hair grass
() A grass with very slender leaves or branches |
Hair-salt
(n.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. |
Horror
(n.) A bristling up |
Horror
(n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever |
Horror
(n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence |
Horror
(n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible |
Horror-sticken
(a.) Struck with horror |
Horror-struck
(a.) Horror-stricken |
Lady's hair
() A plant of the genus Briza (B. media) |
Maid's hair
() The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum). |
Over-story
(n.) The clearstory, or upper story, of a building. |
Raiser
(n.) One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb). |
Spine
(n.) A sharp appendage to any of a plant |
Spine
(n.) A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal. |
Spine
(n.) One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish. |
Spine
(n.) The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal |
Spine
(n.) Anything resembling the spine or backbone |
Spine-finned
(a.) Having fine supported by spinous fin rays |
Spine-tailed
(a.) Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
Stories
(pl. ) of Story |
Story
(v. t.) A set of rooms on the same floor or level |
Story
(n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred |
Story
(n.) The relation of an incident or minor event |
Story
(n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie |
Story
(v. t.) To tell in historical relation |
Story-teller
(n.) One who tells stories |
Story-teller
(n.) An historian |
Story-teller
(n.) A euphemism or child's word for |
Story-telling
(a.) Being accustomed to tell stories. |
Story-telling
(n.) The act or practice of telling stories. |
Story-writer
(n.) One who writes short stories, as for magazines. |
Story-writer
(n.) An historian |
| curtain raiser | any preliminary activity |
hair care
haircare
hairdressing | care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair |
| hair coloring | the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair |
hairaiser
chiller | excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones, the movie was an old-fashioned hairaiser |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
| guard hair | coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals |
| hair | a filamentous projection or process on an organism |
| spine | a sharp rigid animal process or appendage, as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin |
whisker
vibrissa
sensory hair | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat |
earless seal
true seal
hair seal | any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers |
camel's hair
camelhair | a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel |
cross hair
cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
curler
hair curler
roller crimper | a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it, a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight |
floor level storey
story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
haircloth
hair | cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair, used for upholstery or stiffening in garments |
hairdressing
hair tonic
hair oil
hair grease | a toiletry for the hair |
hairpiece
false hair
postiche | a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment |
| hair shirt | an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair, worn next to the skin as a penance |
| hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
| hair space | (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters |
| hair spray | toiletry consisting of a commercial preparation that is sprayed on the hair to hold it in place |
| hair trigger | a gun trigger that responds with little pressure |
hand blower
blow dryer
blow drier
hair dryer
hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
| horror | something that inspires dislike, something horrible, the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him |
mousse
hair mousse
hair gel | toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling |
sable sable brush
sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
spine
backbone | the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved, the title and author were printed on the spine of the book |
| hair coloring | coloring of the hair, her hairoloring was unusual: a very pale gold |
| hair cell | a sensory epithelial cell present in the organ of Corti |
| hair pilus | any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal, there is a hair in my soup |
| ingrown hair | a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation) |
| hair | a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head), helps to prevent heat loss, he combed his hair, each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells |
| body hair | short hair growing over a person's body |
| mane head of hair | growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being |
hairdo
hairstyle
hair style
coiffure
coif | the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) |
| facial hair | hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) |
pubic hair
bush
crotch hair | hair growing in the pubic area |
| hair follicle | a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair, small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them |
spinal column
vertebral column
spine
backbone
back rachis | the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord, the fall broke his back |
news article
news story
newspaper article | an article reporting news |
lead
lead story | a news story of major importance |
| story | a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events, he writes stories for the magazines |
adventure story
heroic tale | a story of an adventure |
mystery
mystery story
whodunit | a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie |
| detective story | a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution |
love story
romance | a story dealing with love |
| short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
history
account
chronicle
story | a record or narrative description of past events, a history of France, he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president, the story of exposure to lead |
biography
life
life story
life history | an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
report
news report
story account write up | a short account of the news, the report of his speech, the story was on the o'clock news, the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious |