(French) head of hair.nebulous part of a comet

ETYM Old Eng. her, heer, haer, as. haer; akin to OFries. hęr, Dutch and German haar, Old High Germ. and Icel. hâr, Dan. haar, Swed. har; cf. Lith. kasa.
Threadlike structure growing from mammalian skin. Each hair grows from a pit-shaped follicle of the outer skin layer (epidermal cells).
Hair consists of dead cells impregnated with the protein keratin.
The number of hairs on a human head varies from between 98,000 (red-heads) to 120,000 (blondes). Each grows at the rate of 0.2–0.4 in/5–10 mm per month, lengthening for about three years before being replaced by a new one. A coat of hair helps to insulate mammals by trapping air next to the body. It also aids in camouflage, and its coloring or erection may be used for communication.
(Homonym: hare).
1. A filamentous projection or process on an organism.
2. Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal and covering the body or parts of it.
3. Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; SYN. fuzz, tomentum. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng. sithe, as. sîthe, sigthe; akin to Icel. sigthr a sickle, lg. segd, seged, seed, seid, Old High Germ. segansa sickle, scythe, German sense scythe, and to Eng. saw a cutting instrument. Related to Saw.
An implement for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground.
Harvesting tool with long wooden handle and sharp, curving blade.
It is similar to a sickle. The scythe was in common use in the Middle East and Europe from the dawn of agriculture until the early 20th century, by which time it had generally been replaced by machinery.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, the scythe was used in the hayfield for cutting grass, but thereafter was applied to cereal crops as well, because it was capable of a faster work rate than the sickle. One person could mow 0.4 hectares/1 acre of wheat in a day with a scythe. Next came a team of workers to gather and bind the crop into sheaves and stand them in groups, or stooks, across the field. + prikaži više