The part of the lock which is moved when the key is engaged.
A kind of lock in which the bolt (moving portion) is held in position by the cylinder rather than by a spring and so cannot be retracted except by turning the cylinder.
To fasten or secure with a deadbolt.
A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
To string the bow for a violin.
To remove the hair from.
To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair