haired
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Definition of haired
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
“It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.”
“He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer.”
“Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.”
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adj
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Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
“It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.”
“He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer.”
“Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.”
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(in-compounds)Bearing some specific type of hair.
“He had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every woman's eye was upon him; every woman's eye was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis.”
“Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […]”
“At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels, with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens, and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand. The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it.”
“1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145, Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.”
“He was a tiny wiry-haired fellow with a pale, sharp-featured face and restless movements.”
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of hair
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).
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