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▪ I. calmy, a. poet. arch.|ˈkɑːmɪ| [f. calm n. (or a.) + -y1.] 1. Characterized by calm; tranquil, peaceful. a. of the air, sea, etc.; of times and places.
1587Churchyard Worth. Wales (1876) 107 When Calmie Skyes sayth bitter stormes are past. 1596Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 30 A still And calmy bay. 1598Tofte Alba (1880) 130 A gentle calmie Winde. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 17 That Sea, where she can hardly say, Sh' has known these twenty years one Calmy day. 1725Pope Odyss. xv. 511 Six calmy days and six smooth nights. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 335 All lies settled in the calmy sky. b. fig. of thoughts, feelings, etc. (rare.)
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 256 My calmie thoughts I fed On Natures sweete repast. a1649Drummond Wks. (1711) 12 Sleep..Had..left me in a still and calmy mood. 2. Of or pertaining to the equatorial calms.
1818Colebrooke Import Colon. Corn 156 Enabling them to hasten out of a calmy region. ▪ II. † calmy [cf. calmey.] ? Calamine.
1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. ii. xxiii, Gray Calmy Stone. |