bigudi

Phonetic: "/heː/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

Definition: The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.

Example: In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.

Definition: 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.

Definition: A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.

Example: Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

Definition: A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.

Definition: Haircloth; a hair shirt.

Definition: Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

Example: Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.

Definition: Complexity; difficulty; quality of being hairy

Phonetic: "/heː/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To remove the hair from.

Definition: To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

Definition: To cause to have hair; to provide with hair

Definition: To string the bow for a violin.

Phonetic: "/bɔːl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

Example: a ball of spittle; a fecal ball

Definition: A round or ellipsoidal object.

Definition: (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Definition: A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.

Definition: A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.

Phonetic: "/bɔːl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To form or wind into a ball.

Example: to ball cotton

Definition: To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

Definition: To have sexual intercourse with.

Definition: To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

Example: The horse balls; the snow balls.

Definition: (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.

Definition: To play basketball.

Definition: To punish by affixing a ball and chain

Phonetic: "/bɔːl/"

Part Of Speech: interjection

Definition: An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.