Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhair
Literary usage of Overhair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"—Sizo about that of the American mink ; overhair fine, 1 \ inches long ...
—Not quite so large as the silver, with fino overhair, but a nh.vlo of red at tho ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The pelt or skin is requisite to keep out the piercing wind and driving storm,
while the fur and overhair ward off the cold; and " furs " are as much a ..."
3. Miscellaneous Publications by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1880)
"The color of the fur is not indicated by the overhair, and as a rule shows greater
variation in shade than the latter, varying from a smutty white to a rich ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The beauty of such pelts as those of foxes and the weasel tribe is due largely
to this long overhair, and when it is at its best, in preparation for winter, ..."
5. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"The overhair is line, close, and elastic, from two-thirds of an inch to an inch
in length, while the fur is not quite half an inch long. ..."
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