hairen

English

Etymology

From Middle English heeren, from Old English hǣren (“made of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *hērīnaz, equivalent to hair +‎ -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots hairen, hairn, herin (“made of hair”), German hären (“made of hair”).

Adjective

hairen (comparative more hairen, superlative most hairen)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Consisting or made of hair

   His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. — J. Taylor.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hairen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Neriah, Rehani, hearin', hernia

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Middle English

Noun

hairen

1. plural of hair (“hairshirt”)