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Hirsute   /hərsˈut/   Listen
adjective
Hirsute  adj.  
1.
Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
2.
Rough and coarse; boorish. (R.) "Cynical and hirsute in his behavior."
3.
(Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.
4.
(Zool.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.





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"Hirsute" Quotes from Famous Books



... several of his hairs, root and all, came out of his scalp in Charles's hand, leaving a few drops of blood on the skin of the head in the place they were torn from. There was no doubt at all it was not a wig, but the Kentuckian's natural hirsute covering. ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen
... was twenty-one, I swore, If I should ever wed, The maiden that I should adore Should have a classic head; Should have a form quite Junoesque; A manner full of grace; A wealth of hirsute ...
— Cobwebs from a Library Corner • John Kendrick Bangs
... novel feature was a shaving contest among the employees of the company. Those entered came to the picnic enshrouded with a hirsute appendage of three days' growth, and supplied with a razor and shaving cup. At a given time the unshaved began to remove the capillary adornment and after the appliance of styptics the winner was ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... represent. Knowing through political spies in your own camp who you were, I acted upon the physical fears of the commissioner, who was an ex-clergyman, and easily induced him to deputize me to consult with you. In doing so, I have lost my scalp, but as the hirsute signs of juvenility have worked against my political progress, I do not regret it. As a partially bald young man I shall have more power. The terms that I have to offer are simply this: you can do ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... M.P. for Birmingham, wore a very large beard, and in 1841 such hirsute adornments ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various


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