Definition of "haired"

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

Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.

2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306

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

Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.

1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145

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

Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls.

1962, Es'kia Mphahlele, chapter 5, in The African Image‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 69

Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches.

1997, Ted Hughes, “Myrrha”, in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, page 116, lines 110–113