Alum root () A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. |
Chay root () The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. |
Choy root () See Chay root. |
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. |
Lady's hair () A plant of the genus Briza (B. media) |
Maid's hair () The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum). |
Root (v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. |
Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility |
Root (v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout |
Root (n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag. |
Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids. |
Root (n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc. |
Root (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support |
Root (n.) An ancestor or progenitor |
Root (n.) A primitive form of speech |
Root (n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about |
Root (n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity |
Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord |
Root (n.) The lowest place, position, or part. |
Root (n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations. |
Root (v. i.) To fix the root |
Root (v. i.) To be firmly fixed |
Root (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth |
Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
mousse hair mousse hair gel | toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling |
root cellar cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
sable sable brush sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
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 |
root tooth root | the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support |
root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
dorsal root dorsal horn | one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers |
ventral root ventral horn anterior root anterior horn | one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers |
hair follicle | a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair, small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them |
eigenvalue eigenvalue of a matrix eigenvalue of a square matrix characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
etymon root | a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes |
hair stroke | a very fine line in writing or printing |
root vegetable | any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers |
celeriac celery root | thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant |
chicory chicory root | root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee |
taro taro root cocoyam dasheen edda | tropical starchy tuberous root |
hair of the dog | an alcoholic drink supposed to cure a hangover |
root beer float | an iceream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer |
root beer | carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs |
solution root | the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation |
beginning origin root rootage source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |