hairing

Verb

hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)

1. (singular, transitive, usually) To remove the hair from.
   • Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, we the said John Cant and John Millar do hereby declare that our said invention of a new method of tanning leather is described in the manner following : that our method of preparing hides and skins by liming, hairing, fleshing, and baiting, is...1808, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 90
2. (intransitive, singular, usually) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
   • He has haired up and healed over.1863, Yankee-notions - Volume 12, page 312
3. (singular, transitive, usually) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
   • THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.1937, Dyestuffs - Volume 35, Issue 1, page 1
4. (singular, usually) To string the bow for a violin.
   • The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it.1896, Henry Saint-George, The Bow, Its History, Manufacture & Use, page 96

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