Word.ws English Dictionary

unhairs

unhairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unhair.

Meaning of unhair

Verb

unhair (third-person singular simple present unhairs, present participle unhairing, simple past and past participle unhaired)

  1. (transitive) To remove hair from (something), especially from hide.
    • Hence horrible Villaine, or Ile ſpurne thine eyes / Like balls before me: Ile vnhaire thy head, […]c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. (intransitive) To become free from hair.
    • If the skin is soaked in an amine solution before being placed in the lime it unhairs at a faster rate, however, than if soaked in plain water, as shown in Table VII.1927, The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, page 361

Questions about unhairs

What is unhairs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unhairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unhair.

Words near unhairs in the dictionary

  1. unhaired
  2. unhairer
  3. unhairers
  4. unhairiness
  5. unhairing
  6. unhairs
  7. unhairy
  8. unhalal
  9. unhale
  10. unhallmarked
  11. unhallow

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unhairs (page history and authors); unhair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unhairs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unhairs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.