(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:02:54

Hair"split`ter (?), n.

One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.

"The caviling hairsplitter."

De Quincey.

 

© Webster 1913.

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