haired

adj
/hɛəd/UK/hɛɹd/US/heːd/

Etymology

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

  1. inherited from hered

Definitions

  1. Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached

    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.
  2. 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 […]
  3. simple past and past participle of hair

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA