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thymy, a.|ˈtaɪmɪ|
[f. thyme + -y.]
1. Abounding in or overgrown with thyme.
1727Gay Fables i. xxii. 11 Whene'er a thymy bank he [a goat] found, He roll'd upon the fragrant ground. 1827–35Willis Flor. Gray 3 Upon Hymettus, and the thymy isles. 1860Tennyson Sea Dreams 38 Lingering about the thymy promontories.
2. Pertaining to or of the nature of thyme; esp. having the scent of thyme.
1747P. Francis tr. Horace, Ep. i. iii. 26 The thymy Fragrance of the Spring. 1874J. Brown Lett. (1907) 228 The thymy breath and free air of the braes and hills. 1880R. Broughton Sec. Th. iii. x, The thymy sweetness of the fell breeze. |