Cowlick vs. Hair

A cowlick is a section of human hair that stands straight up or lies at an angle at odds with the style in which the rest of an individual's hair is worn.The most common site of a human cowlick is in the crown, but they can show up anywhere.

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals.

A projecting tuft of hair on the head that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and will not lie flat.

any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals

An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.

hairs collectively, especially those growing on a person's head

A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

a very small quantity or extent

a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat

Any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.

A growth of such filaments, as that forming the coat of an animal or covering the scalp of a human.

A filamentous projection or bristle similar to a hair, such as a seta of an arthropod or an epidermal process of a plant.

Fabric made from the hair of certain animals

A minute distance or narrow margin

A precise or exact degree

(countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

(uncountable) 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.

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.

A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.

(countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.

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.

(obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.

(countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.

(transitive) To remove the hair from.

(intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

(transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair

To string the bow for a violin.

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in vertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.

Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.

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.

An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.

A haircloth.

Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss;

a very small distance or space;

filamentous hairlike growth on a plant;

any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal;

cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

a filamentous projection or process on an organism