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against the hair

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Definitions

  1. In a rough and disagreeable manner

    In a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain.

    • He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should fight, you go against the hair of your professions.
    • But his Army loved him not; all went unwillingly with him, and against the hair.
    • And yet hee’l smile, but then beware, For sure it is against the hair;

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for against the hair. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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