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Hairy, having hair. Also as the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having hair of a specified kind. Obsolete except in faxed star n. at…
Designating a ‘star’ with a hairlike coma or tail, i.e. a comet. Obsolete.
Furnished with hair, hairy; in quot. 1600 used of a comet.
transferred. Of the earth, a hillside, etc.: Covered with a rough, tangled growth. Also of a comet: ‘Hairy’.