- Brother is missing half the battle by a whisker - Get hackles up - Short stiff hair - Stiff fibre of a brush - Stiff hair - A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine. - A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
- A bristle - Bristle-like appendage - Bristle-like part - plant part - Stiff hair - Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part;
as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the
hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the
leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss. - One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid.
They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in
locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.
- Long stiff hair - mutton chop - One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick,
sweeping motion. - Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; --
usually in the plural. - That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the
face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers. - A hair of the beard. - One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of
the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
- Hoop skirt - Petticoat fabric - stiff linen fabric - A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for
underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because
originally made of hair. - A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a
hoop skirt.