Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a harelip.

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  • adjective having a harelip

Etymologies

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harelip +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • They should get a harelipped, cross-eyed hemophiliac kid to act alongside Adam Sandler.

    THEES MOVIE LOOKS FAWKEN TERRIBLE 2008

  • They should get a harelipped, cross-eyed hemophiliac kid to act alongside Adam Sandler.

    THEES MOVIE LOOKS FAWKEN TERRIBLE 2008

  • Within a year, his process was being used on five continents, in service of almost every field of human endeavor—to yield photogenic drawings of fossils, for phrenology portraits of captured Congo slaves, to study the geological strata of the American West, to catalog the medical pathology of the harelipped and the goitered and the leprosied, to chronicle eclipses and astronomical events, to render portraiture of politicians and kings and heads of state.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Within a year, his process was being used on five continents, in service of almost every field of human endeavor—to yield photogenic drawings of fossils, for phrenology portraits of captured Congo slaves, to study the geological strata of the American West, to catalog the medical pathology of the harelipped and the goitered and the leprosied, to chronicle eclipses and astronomical events, to render portraiture of politicians and kings and heads of state.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Within a year, his process was being used on five continents, in service of almost every field of human endeavor—to yield photogenic drawings of fossils, for phrenology portraits of captured Congo slaves, to study the geological strata of the American West, to catalog the medical pathology of the harelipped and the goitered and the leprosied, to chronicle eclipses and astronomical events, to render portraiture of politicians and kings and heads of state.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • He was a heavy-set man of about 38, harelipped, an old ragged shirt and breechcloth his only apparel, and with nothing of his former grandeur but the memory.

    Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

  • He knew that he wished to obtain the name of the harelipped man and, sincere enemy of his own people though Perley was, he no longer had any objection to telling.

    The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand 1890

  • There was the expedition of the harelipped Bird with his powerful force and with cannon!

    The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand 1890

  • "An 'I'd like to get a shot at that harelipped villain," interjected

    The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand 1890

  • He recognized at once the harelipped man, Bird, now in the uniform of a

    The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand 1890

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