Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a specified kind of hair. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having hair: commonly used in composition: as, long-haired, yellow-haired, dark-haired, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having hair.
- adjective In composition: Having (such) hair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective in combination Having some
specific type ofhair .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or covered with hair
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Examples
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They are either drawn or cut off flush in short-haired skins when dry, but in one like the bear they may be driven to the head and left so.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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Club, to hunt for talent; at the same time a brother of the chairman of the Phœnix committee, who kept a bar-room in Chicago, received a letter which caused considerable discussion between him and his partner, and several interviews with a certain short-haired, thick-set individual who frequented his place.
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The white head of the old among the dark-haired is like an almond tree, with its white blossoms, among the dark trees around [Holden].
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Turns out that grizzly means grey-haired, which is why the large bears are so called.
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A lot of well aged prime beef comes out of the cooler in a state that is called 'haired' in the industry due to the growth of fungi on the fat layer.
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A lot of well aged prime beef comes out of the cooler in a state that is called 'haired' in the industry due to the growth of fungi on the fat layer.
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Martha is a little girl for whom the reader becomes, effectively, a stand-in, and Lionel is a suave, ginger-haired cat-trickster who only pretends to spend his days napping on the sofa.
A Walrus, a Bear, A Cat, Oh My! Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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I'm in a Latin American novel, one in which an egret-haired viejo shakes with some invisible sorrow, some obscene affliction, and chronicles it secretly, till it shows in his face, the parenthetical wrinkles confirming his fiction to his deep embarrassment.
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There were college students, college professors, a group of older gray-haired former hippies, a woman knitting, two young men playing chess.
Steve Rosenbaum: Wikipedia Turns 10 Years Old Steve Rosenbaum 2011
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Most of the women sitting around the huge quilting frame are your typical little old ladies, white haired and shrunken, with Kleenex at the ready.
Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011
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