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S: (n) hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))

S: (n) hair (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"

S: (n) coat, pelage (growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal)

S: (n) fur (dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel))

S: (n) undercoat, underfur (thick soft fur lying beneath the longer and coarser guard hair)

S: (n) guard hair (coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals)
S: (n) mane (long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck)

S: (n) forelock, foretop (a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears)
S: (n) beard (hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals)
S: (n) body hair (short hair growing over a person's body)
S: (n) down, pile (fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs))

S: (n) lanugo (the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation)

S: (n) mane, head of hair (growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being)
S: (n) cowlick (a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat)
S: (n) hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))

S: (n) beehive (a hairdo resembling a beehive)
S: (n) bouffant (a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance)
S: (n) haircut (the style in which hair has been cut)

S: (n) brush cut (a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush)
S: (n) crew cut, butch, flattop (a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys)
S: (n) mohawk, mohawk haircut (haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp)

S: (n) Afro, Afro hairdo (a rounded thickly curled hairdo)
S: (n) bang, fringe (a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead)
S: (n) bob (a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around)
S: (n) wave (a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair)

S: (n) finger wave (a wave made with the fingers)
S: (n) permanent wave, permanent, perm (a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals)

S: (n) braid, plait, tress, twist (a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair)

S: (n) chignon (a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck)
S: (n) marcel (a hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron)
S: (n) pageboy (a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward)
S: (n) pompadour (a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead)
S: (n) ponytail (a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail)
S: (n) roach (a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead)
S: (n) scalp lock (a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head)
S: (n) thatch (hair resembling thatched roofing material)

S: (n) quiff (a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead))

S: (n) pin curl (a curl of hair made by dampening a strand of hair and curling it and holding the curl with a clip or bobby pin)
S: (n) spit curl, kiss curl (a spiral curl plastered on the forehead or cheek)

S: (n) dreadlock (one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians)

S: (n) beard, face fungus, whiskers (the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face)

S: (n) fuzz (the first beard of an adolescent boy)
S: (n) imperial, imperial beard (a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III)
S: (n) beaver (a full beard)
S: (n) goatee (a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard)
S: (n) stubble (short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days)
S: (n) vandyke beard, vandyke (a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke))
S: (n) soul patch, Attilio (a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin)

S: (n) mustache, moustache (an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip) "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache"

S: (n) soup-strainer, toothbrush (slang for a mustache)
S: (n) mustachio, moustachio, handle-bars (a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth))
S: (n) walrus mustache, walrus moustache (a bushy droopy mustache)

S: (n) sideburn, burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers (facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off))

S: (n) eyebrow, brow, supercilium (the arch of hair above each eye)
S: (n) eyelash, lash, cilium (any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids)

S: (v) dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure (arrange attractively) "dress my hair for the wedding"