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Hairy   /hˈɛri/   Listen
adjective
Hairy  adj.  
1.
Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; hirsute. "His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge."
2.
Very complicated, difficult, or involved; as, a hairy problem; a hairy equation. (Colloq.)
3.
Dangerous or frightening; as, a hairy encounter with a mugger.





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"Hairy" Quotes from Famous Books



... As they played at dice, the Latins took off his diadem, and clapped on his head a woollen or hairy cap, to megaloprepeV kai pagkleiston katerrupainen onoma, (Nicetas, p. 358.) If these merry companions were Venetians, it was the insolence ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon
... Indians call the Aurora Borealis "Edthin," that is "Deer." Their ideas in this respect are founded on a principle one would not imagine. Experience has shown them that when a hairy deer-skin is briskly stroked with the hand on a dark night, it will emit ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang
... enough to harrow up your soul. Huge beyond belief, round and luminous as full moons, they were filled with the phosphorescent greenish-yellow glare that sometimes appears in the expanded pupils of a cat or a wild beast. The great hairy head was black, but the stocky body was as white as a polar bear. The arms were apelike and very long and muscular, and the entire aspect of the creature betokened ...
— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss
... front, and two horns projecting behind, so that, but for the sharp fiery eyes of the creature, it would have been difficult to tell its head from its hinder part. Its rusty colour, its ill-shaped body, and hairy legs, combined with the piercing look from its eyes, gave it a most vicious appearance, such as belongs, less or more, to all of its race—for it was of ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid
... had come from a State where bears are plentiful; perhaps, now, it may not have been the first time in his life that Allan Hollister had found himself chased by one of the hairy tribe. ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter


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