"against the hair" meaning in English

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          "text": "He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should fight, you go against the hair of your professions.",
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          "ref": "1644, David Hume, The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, Edinburgh, Part II, p. 248:",
          "text": "But his Army loved him not; all went unwillingly with him, and against the hair.",
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          "text": "And yet hee’l smile, but then beware,\nFor sure it is against the hair;",
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        "In a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain."
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        "(obsolete) In a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain."
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