haired, a.
(hɛəd)
Forms: see hair n.
[f. hair n. + -ed2.]
Having hair; covered with hair or hairs. Often with adj. prefixed, as black-haired, golden-haired, long-haired.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 308 Þe sterre herid or beerdid. c 1400 Destr. Troy 3780 A tulke full faire, Blake horit. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xvii. 78 In Ethiopy er ȝung childer white hared. 1548–77 Vicary Anat. v. (1888) 34 He that hath not his Browes heyred is not seemely. 1674 N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. i. (1677) 106 Crooked-leg'd, and commonly short-hair'd. 1766 Pennant Zool. (1768) I. 30 A good skin well haired is sold for guinea. 1861 Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. v. 149 Others are granulated or haired. |