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hairiness

noun

Etymology

From hairy + -ness.

  1. inherited from hery
  2. formed as hairiness — “hairy + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The characteristic of being hairy.

    • The fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.
    • Spanberg, the Russian navigator, landed, he says, in a great island from 43° to 50° lat., speaks of the uncommon hairiness of the natives, and of their wearing of silver in their ears.

  2. A characteristic of yarn

    A characteristic of yarn: the proportion of fibre ends that stick out and are not embedded in the yarn body.

    • There was a reduction in hairiness of yarn after warping by about 17% in comparison to the hairiness of the wound yarn.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA