hair shaped

Botany: 1. The same as filiform, but more delicate, so as to resemble a hair. 2. Finely ramified; used of the inflorescence of some gra es. ( Lindley .) hair-shirt, s. Eccles. & Ch. Hist .: The hair-shirt is an instru. ment of penance, made of horse-hair; strictly speaking it is a broad band rather than a shirt, and is worn round the loins, affording the wearer continual occasion of mortification. Ascetic writers strongly recommend it as a remedy for temptations against purity. Roman theologians see in Ps. xxxv. 13, the first instance of its use. Among the Carthu. sians it forms part of each monk's ordinary apparel. hair-side, s. Leather Man : The grain side