haired
adjUK /hɛəd/ · US /hɛɹd/
Etymology From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).
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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.1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:
- 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.1993, Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older, page 205:
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- Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306:
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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.1818, Jane Austen, chapter 15, in Persuasion:
- Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […]1848, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Dombey and Son:
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- 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.1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter 28, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, page 196:
- 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.1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:
- A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly.1958, R. K. Narayan, chapter 4, in The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 45:
- Derived terms
- hairedness, haired up, Slovak Rough-haired Pointer, underhaired
- Hyponyms
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black-haired, brown-haired, curlyhaired, dark-haired, fair-haired, ginger-haired, golden-haired, gray-haired, grey-haired, Judas-haired, long-haired, longhaired, raven-haired, red-haired, short-haired, shorthaired, silky-haired, silver-haired, silvery-haired, smooth-haired, tousle-haired, tow-haired, white-haired, whitehaired, wirehaired, wire-haired, yellow-haired