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unhair en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English unheeren, equivalent to un- + hair.

Meanings

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, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v], page 348, column 2:
   • They found that such a practice produced what was termed a "mellow" lime; the mellower the lime the more rapidly it unhaired the skin. 1924, Tanners' Council of America. Research Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, Reports and Papers, volume 2, page 520:
   • The sides, after being unhaired, are put in clean water over night, then green-shaved and put in a bate of hen manure four or five days. 1889, Annual report of the Bureau of Animal Industry - Volume 4, Parts 1887-1888, page 425:
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:

Forms

Deriveds

unhairer

Translations (1)

fi karvoa (remove hair)