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hirsute, a.|ˈhɜːsjuːt|
Also 7 hersute.
[ad. L. hirsūtus rough, shaggy, bristly, f. *hirsus, by-form of hirtus in same sense. Cf. F. hirsute.]
1. Having rough or shaggy hair; hairy, shaggy.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xiv. (1651) 125 A rugged attire, hirsute head, horrid beard. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. 80 That hirsute or long-haired Goat. 1825Scott Talism. iii, The wild and hirsute appearance of the individual. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. iii. vi. (1866) 463 Wearing his hair and beard unshorn..this hirsute and savage corsair seemed an embodiment of vengeance.
2. Bot. and Zool. Covered with long and stiffish hairs.
1626Bacon Sylva §616 There are..Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 125 Caterpillars..those that are hirsute..Palmer worm, Bear worm. 1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 424 The stems more or less hirsute. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 404 Caterpillars..sometimes pilose or hirsute. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 122 Styles free or nearly so, hirsute.
3. Of or pertaining to hair; of the nature of or consisting of hair.
1823Byron Juan ix. liii, The usual hirsute seasons which destroy, With beard and whiskers.. the fond Parisian aspect which upset old Troy. 1840H. Ainsworth Tower Lond. (1864) 208 The giant clapped his hand to his chin—too late, however, to save a particle of his hirsute honours. 1882May Crommelin Brown-Eyes xi. (1884) 92 A broad though kindly face, totally devoid of hirsute ornament.
4. transf. and fig.
a. Rough, shaggy; untrimmed.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. vi. iii. (1651) 558 Dressed in some old hirsute attires out of fashion. a1849H. Coleridge Poems (1850) II. 106 Garden-plots hirsute and weedy.
b. Of manners or style: Rough, unpolished.
1658Wood Life 5 Apr. (O.H.S.) I. 243 He look'd elderly and was cynical and hirsute in his behavior. 1854Gilfillan Life Blair B.'s. Wks. (1854) 1255 The tone and style of his poem..are somewhat hirsute and unpolished.
So hirˈsuted a. rare = prec. 2; hirˈsutism, an abnormal degree of hairiness.
1707Sloane Jamaica I. 113 Having neither hirsuted, spotted, nor undulated leaves. 1926in Index-Catal. Library Surg.-General's Office, U.S. Army VI. 753/2. 1927 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 19 Mar. 969 Hirsutism and suprarenal virilism. 1959New Biol. XXVIII. 132 Other serious abnormalities occur in these diseases, but hirsutism in female patients is a particularly distressing result. |