hairiness

hairiness englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

hairiness englanniksi

1. The characteristic of being hairy.

2. 1665, (w), ''(w)'', Observ. XXVI, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15491/15491-h/15491-h.htm

We have had (says he) another of this kind brought us out of the East-Indies, which being planted was in shew like the former, but came not to perfection, the unkindly season not suffering it to shew the flower; but of the Cods that were brought, some were smaller, shorter, and rounder then the Garden kind; others much longer, and many growing together, as it were in clusters, and cover'd all over with a brown short hairiness, so fine, that if any of it be rubb'd, or fall on the back of ones hand, or other tender parts of the skin, it will cause a kind of itching (..)

3. (RQ:Swift Gulliver's Travels)

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1804|author=William Robert Broughton|title=A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean|location=London|publisher=T. Cadell and W. Davies|section=Book I, p. 92, footnote|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=cTkbAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

5. (RQ:Carr Book of Small)

6. A characteristic of yarn: the proportion of fibre ends that out and are not embedded in the yarn body.http://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/5483/methods-of-testing-yarn-hairiness

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1978|author=Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association|title=Proceedings of the Technological Conference|page=91|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=hiZIAAAAYAAJ&q=%22hairiness%22&dq=%22hairiness%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix7tKcr5nPAhVH9mMKHcI4CB8Q6AEIKjAC