Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The longer and usually stiffer hairs of a mammal's pelage which overlie the main fur.
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Examples
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A dark brown tail, a glossy body, and what fine over-hair!
Seven Icelandic Short Stories Various
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The newcomer, though powerful, showed the dark-brown rather than the grizzled over-hair of the older bull, but while he had youth on his side, he was not the veteran of hundreds of battles.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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He seemed to be overlooking a wonderful beach of rounded boulders, smooth and glistening like polished steel; here and there pieces of gaunt gray rock projected above and at intervals of about every fifteen to forty feet towered a huge figure like a walrus with a mane of grizzled over-hair on the shoulders and long bristly yellowish-white whiskers.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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