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hispid, a.|ˈhɪspɪd|
[ad. L. hispid-us in same sense. Cf. F. hispide (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Rough with stiff hair or bristles; shaggy; bristly: in Bot. and Invert. Zool. Clothed with short stiff hairs or bristles; rough with minute spines.
1646H. More in J. Hall's Poems To yng. Authour, John of the wilderness? the hairy child? The hispid Thisbite? or what satyr wild? 1648Herrick Hesper., To J. Weare 24 Sooner the in-side of thy hand shall grow Hisped, and hairie. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Leaf, Hispid Leaf..one whose surface is covered with more thick and rigid hairs than the pilose leaf. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. xi. 323 The Hispid Worms of Lamarck. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 212 The herbage of Boragineæ is often very coarse and hispid. 1877Coues & Allen N. Amer. Rodentia 31 Pelage hispid, from abundance of large bristly hairs.
fig.1848J. Hamilton Happy Home ii. (1871) 37 The harsh and hispid law.
Hence hiˈspidity; ˈhispidly adv.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. iii. vi. §5 The hispidity, or hairiness of skin. 1854Mayne Expos. Lex., Hispiditas..hispidity. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 228 Sheep's-bit..hispidly pubescent. |