Hairiness

Hairiness
HAIRINESS (Raw Silk)
A condition of silk threads due to countless fibres of fragmentary size having been broken off the individual cocoon filaments. This condition is also known as lousiness or fuzziness.

Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.

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  • Hairiness — Hair i*ness ( [i^]*n[e^]s), n. 1. The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. The quality of being hairy. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hairiness — hairy ► ADJECTIVE (hairier, hairiest) 1) covered with or resembling hair. 2) informal alarming and difficult. DERIVATIVES hairiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • hairiness — noun see hairy …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • hairiness — See hairy. * * * …   Universalium

  • hairiness — noun The characteristic of being hairy …   Wiktionary

  • hairiness — Synonyms and related words: abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness, complexity, complication, difficultness, difficulty, hardness, intricacy, laboriousness, onerousness, oppressiveness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • hairiness — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. shagginess, downiness, pubescence, pilosity, hispidity, crinosity, bristliness, hirsuteness, furriness, fluffiness …   English dictionary for students

  • hairiness — hair·i·ness || herɪnɪs / heÉ™r n. state of having hair, state of being covered with hair …   English contemporary dictionary

  • hairiness — n crinosity, furriness, downiness, pilosity, Both Bot., Zool. pubescence, pubescency; wooliness, shagginess, hirsuteness, Med. hirsutism; bristliness, Bot., Zool. hispidity …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • hairiness — hair·i·ness …   English syllables

  • hairiness — See: hairy …   English dictionary

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