(countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
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And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
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1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Aegloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
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Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
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1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 135: