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silver-haired, a.
[silver n. 17.]
1. Having hair silvered with age. Also fig.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 148 Such..as have a due esteem of Silver-hair'd Antiquity. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xiii, The same tall, thin, silver-haired turnkey, whom he had seen on the preceding evening. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 147 He made the acquaintance of more than one silver-haired pioneer.
2. Having hair naturally of a silvery colour.
1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1301/4 Mounted upon a brown silver-haired Gelding. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Rabbit, The skins of the silver-haired ones [rabbits] sell better than any other. 1827Griffith tr. Cuvier V. 26 Simia Lagothrix Canus (Silver-haired Monkey). 1836Sir G. Head Home Tour 248 Rabbits..of a description called by the poulterers ‘silver-haired’, that is to say black with a sprinkling of white hairs, more or less. 1893Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. I. 279 The silver-haired bat has the most northern range of any American species. |