English Dictionary

hair

/hɛə/

verb

(transitive) To remove the hair from. / (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot). / (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair / To string the bow for a violin.

She decided to hair her legs before going to the beach.

意味（1）

(transitive) To remove the hair from.

Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, we the said John Cant and John Millar do hereby declare that our said invention of a new method of tanning leather is described in the manner following : that our method of preparing hides and skins by liming, hairing, fleshing, and baiting, is the same as that in use by the most experienced tanners; that is to say: All leather that is to be dressed or curried, we use the operation of what tanners call baiting, for this reason; that the leather when curried should carry a sufficient quantity of oil, and dry a good colour.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

He has haired up and healed over.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair

THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.

意味（4）

To string the bow for a violin.

The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it.