haired

comparative more haired · superlative most haired

1. Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.

   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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   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

2. in compoundsBearing some specific type of hair.

   1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145, Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.

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   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

   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

   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

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of hair