1. maid(n = noun.person) amah, housemaid, maidservant - a female domestic; Array
is a kind of domestic, domestic help, house servant
has particulars: chambermaid, fille de chambre, handmaid, handmaiden, lady's maid, parlormaid, parlourmaid
2. maid(n = noun.person) maiden - an unmarried girl (especially a virgin); Array
is a kind of fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman
has particulars: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle
Derived form noun maidhood1
1. An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden. [1913 Webster]
"Would I had died a maid,
And never seen thee, never borne thee son." [1913 Webster]
"Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me." [1913 Webster]
2. A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [1913 Webster]
"Christ was a maid and shapen as a man." [1913 Webster]
3. A female servant. [1913 Webster]
" Maid is used either adjectively or in composition, signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant." [1913 Webster]
"Spinning amongst her maids." [1913 Webster]
4. The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (
maid, n.
1 a female domestic servant.
2 archaic or poet. a girl or young woman.
Idiom:
maid of honour
1 an unmarried lady attending a queen or princess.
2 a kind of small custard tart.
3 esp. US a principal bridesmaid.
Derivative:
maidish adj.
Etymology:
ME, abbr. of MAIDEN
N servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.
N celibacy, singleness, single blessedness, bachelorhood, bachelorship, misogamy, misogyny, virginity, pucelage, maidenhood, maidenhead, unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor, misogamist, misogynist, monogamist, monk, unmarried woman, spinster, maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole, old maid, bachelor girl, girl-bachelor, nun, unmarried, unwed, unwedded, wifeless, spouseless, single.
lady's maid, maid of honor, meter maid, old maid, old maid flower, scullery maid
1. hair(n = noun.body) Array - a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"
is a kind of body covering
is a part of integumentary system
has parts: hairline, part, parting
has particulars: coat, pelage, guard hair, mane, forelock, foretop, beard, body hair, down, pile, head of hair, mane, cowlick, coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle, curl, lock, ringlet, whorl, facial hair, bush, crotch hair, pubic hair, brow, eyebrow, supercilium, cilium, eyelash, lash
Derived form adjective hairy1
2. hair(n = noun.quantity) hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker - a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"
is a kind of small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
3. hair(n = noun.plant) fuzz, tomentum - filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"
is a kind of enation, plant process
has particulars: stinging hair, beard
4. hair(n = noun.body) pilus - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"
is a kind of filament, filum
is a part of mammal, mammalian
has particulars: ingrown hair
5. hair(n = noun.artifact) haircloth - cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments; Array
is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
6. hair(n = noun.animal) Array - a filamentous projection or process on an organism; Array
is a kind of appendage, outgrowth, process
has particulars: bristle, sensory hair, vibrissa, whisker, seta, pilus
Derived form adjective hairy1
1. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body. [1913 Webster]
2. One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in vertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. [1913 Webster]
"Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs." [1913 Webster]
"And draweth new delights with hoary hairs." [1913 Webster]
3. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions. [1913 Webster]
4. A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. [1913 Webster]
5. An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (
6. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. [1913 Webster]
7. A haircloth. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
8. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. [1913 Webster]
" Hairs is often used adjectively or in combination; as, hairbrush or hair brush, hair dye, hair oil, hairpin, hair powder, a brush, a dye, etc., for the hair." [1913 Webster]
hair, n.
1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. b these collectively (his hair is falling out).
2 a an artificially produced hairlike strand, e.g. in a brush. b a mass of such hairs.
3 anything resembling a hair.
4 an elongated cell growing from the epidermis of a plant.
5 a very small quantity or extent (also attrib.: a hair crack).
Idiom:
get in a person's hair colloq. encumber or annoy a person. hair-drier (or -dryer) an electrical device for drying the hair by blowing warm air over it. hair-grass any of various grasses, esp. of the genus Deschampsia, Corynephous, Aira, etc., with slender stems. hair of the dog see DOG. hair-raising extremely alarming; terrifying. hair's breadth a very small amount or margin. hair shirt a shirt of haircloth, worn formerly by penitents and ascetics. hair-shirt adj. (attrib.) austere, harsh, self-sacrificing. hair-slide Brit. a (usu. ornamental) clip for keeping the hair in position. hair-splitter a quibbler. hair-splitting adj. & n. making overfine distinctions; quibbling. hair-trigger a trigger of a firearm set for release at the slightest pressure. keep one's hair on Brit. colloq. remain calm; not get angry. let one's hair down colloq. abandon restraint; behave freely or wildly. make one's hair stand on end alarm or horrify one. not turn a hair remain apparently unmoved or unaffected.
Derivative:
haired adj. (also in comb.). hairless adj. hairlike adj.
Etymology:
OE h{aelig}r f. Gmc
N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.
N filament, line, fiber, fibril, funicle, vein, hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili, tendril, gossamer, hair stroke, veinlet, venula, venule, wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute, strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving, beard, ramification, strand, filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform, fibrous, fibrillous, thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy, capillary, capilliform, funicular, wire-drawn, anguilliform, flagelliform, hairy, taeniate, taeniform, taenioid, venose, venous.
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
berenice's hair, body hair, camel's hair, cross hair, crotch hair, false hair, guard hair, hair ball, hair care, hair cell, hair coloring, hair curler, hair drier, hair dryer, hair dye, hair follicle, hair gel, hair grass, hair grease, hair mousse, hair of the dog, hair oil, hair seal, hair shirt, hair slide, hair space, hair spray, hair stroke, hair style, hair tonic, hair trigger, hair worm, hand by a hair, head of hair, ingrown hair, lady's hair, maid's hair, pele's hair, pubic hair, root hair, sable's hair pencil, sensory hair, stinging hair