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leavy, a.|ˈliːvɪ|
[Earlier and more normal form of leafy.]
1. Having leaves; covered with leaves or foliage. Obs. exc. poet.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 486 With leuy bowis puld ek let hem be By nyght. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. xcvi. vi, Leavy infants of the wood. 1608Shakes. Per. v. i. 51 The leauie shelter that abutts against the Islands side. 1634Milton Comus 278 Dim darknes, and this leavy Labyrinth. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xxi. 266 So doth the humble vine creep at the foot of an oak..and [they] are the most remarkable of friends..of all the leavie nation. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. ix. ix, A green leavy little tree. 1832Tennyson Margaret v, And faint, rainy lights are seen, Moving in the leavy beech. 1833― Poems 42, I heard..The nightingale in leavy woods Call to its mate.
†b. Of a season: Abounding in foliage. Obs.
1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. iii. 75 The fraud of men were euer so, Since summer first was leauy.
c. Consisting of or made of leaves (either natural or ornamental).
1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. i. xix, He fled thy sight,..And for his shield a leavie armour weav'd. 1611Cotgr., Fueillure..; also, leafe-worke, or a leauie flourishing.
†2. Of a gate: Having leaves. Obs.
c1611Chapman Iliad vi. 86 Take the key, vnlocke the leauie gates.
Hence † ˈleaviness, leafiness.
1611Cotgr., Fueillure, Leauinesse. 1687Rycaut Contn. Knolles' Hist. Turks II. 252 The shady leaviness of two tall elms. |