hair (3 a common Eliz. sense; Ant. I. ii. 206 “like the courser's hair” refers to the popular notion that a horsehair placed in water will turn into an eel)
1.
type of something small or
slight, jot or tittle, iota
Tp. I. ii. 217
“Not a perish'd,”
2H4 I. ii. 26
“it is not a
amiss,”
Troil. III. ii. 191
“If I . . . swerve a
from truth”
; so “h-'s breadth”
Wiv. IV. ii. 3; “to a ,” to a nicety,
with the utmost exactness Troil. III. i. 159.
2.
“against the ,” contrary to
the natural tendency, against the grain Wiv. II. iii. 42, Troil. I. ii. 28.
3.
kind, nature, stamp,
character
1H4 IV. i. 61
“The quality and hair of
our attempt.”