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▪ I. lawny, a.1|ˈlɔːnɪ|
[f. lawn n.1 + -y.]
1. Made of lawn.
1598Bp. Hall Sat. iv. iv. 31 When a plum'd Fanne may shade thy chalked face, And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace. 1604Drayton Moses Map Miracles 12 The..winde..was..angrie with her lawnie vaile, That from his sight it enuiouslie should hide her. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. Wks. 1851 III. 173 Not she her selfe..but a false-whited, a lawnie resemblance of her. 1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 2 Their vests, and lawnie-petticoats tied, and tuckt up at the waste. 1795Coleridge Lewti v, Perhaps the breezes..Have snatched aloft the lawny shroud Of Lady fair—that died for love. 1817Keats Sleep & Beauty 374 A fold of lawny mantle dabbling swims At the bath's edge. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 446 Heaven's gleam Her light loose lawny vestment silver'd. 1853De Quincey Autobiogr. Sk. Wks. I. 23 Visions of beds with white lawny curtains.
b. Dressed in lawn; also pertaining to a wearer of lawn, i.e. a bishop.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 71 Let Salvation come..with..lawny embracements. 1691C. Blount Opening of Session in Collect. of Poems 21 Their Lawney Conscience, whose Designs were seen, In voting out the King to serve the Queen. 1742–8Shenstone Schoolmistr. 134 The times when..lawny saints in smould'ring flames did burn.
2. Resembling lawn; lawn-like; † soft as lawn.
1615Crooke Body of Man v. Pref. (1631) 257 As a Spider in the center of her Lawny Canopy with admirable skil weaueth her Cipresse web. 1618N. Ward S. Ward's Jethro Ep. Ded., Impatient of cure; not only of searching acrimonious waters..but shie of the most soft and lawny touches. 1880R. Broughton Sec. Th. iii. iii, Her eyes are absently fixed on the lawny mists that swathe the fells' fair necks.
▪ II. lawny, a.2|ˈlɔːnɪ|
[f. lawn n.2 + -y.]
†a. Containing lawns or glades (obs.).
b. Resembling a lawn; covered with smooth green turf.
1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i, Through Forrests, Mountaines or the Lawny ground. 1727–46Thomson Summer 768 Stupendous rocks That..lift Cool to the middle air their lawny tops. 1809Campbell Gertrude iii. iv, Where..pines their lawny walk encompass round. 1822Shelley Isle i, There was a little lawny islet. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. III. vi. 175 The river running between lawny margins. |