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▪ I. sinewy, a.|ˈsɪnjuːɪ|
Also α. 4 senewy; 5 synnevy, 7 synewy, -ie; 6 sinnewie, sinewye, 6–7 sinewie, 7 -ewey. β. 5 senowy; synnowy, 5, 7 synowy (6 -owie); 6 sinnowy, 7 -ie, 6–7 sinowie, -owy (6 -owye).
[f. sinew n. + -y. Cf. Du. zenuwig, G. sehnig († zenich, synnig).]
†1. Made of sinews. Obs. rare—1.
1382Wyclif Judges xvi. 7 If with seuen senewy [L. nerviceis] coordis..Y were boundun, Y shal be feble as other men.
2. Furnished with, full of, sinews.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxv. (Bodl. MS.), The nekke..[is] senewy to make wilfull meuyng. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 85 Þe face and þe leggez, and synowy placez and bony. 1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 32 It..helpeth the sinowye partes. 1576Turberv. Venerie 233 The sides of the dogges bulke, or vpon his thighes, or suche sinewye places. 1603J. Davies (Heref.) Microcos. Wks. (Grosart) I. 24/1 For in the sinewes..This pow'r is plac'd, or in the Synewy skin. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xx. note, The fleshie pannicle is a membrane very thick, sinewy, woven in with little veins. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Embrocation, Nothing is more powerful to remove obstinate Swellings in the sinewy Parts. 1885Where Chineses Drive 186 The only meat he could find to operate on was part of an awfully sinewy leg of beef.
Comb.1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 246 The usual price received for lean, stringy-fleshed, sinewy-legged fowls, is far from remunerative.
3. Having strong, well-developed, or prominent sinews.
Usually implying strength, but sometimes leanness.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 226 Who-so hath the fete well shappyn, grete toes and synnowy, sholde bene stronge and hardy. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 704 The thies sadde and senowy, not to side. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. ii. i, His armes and fingers long and sinowy. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. ii. iii. 259 [Let] Bull-bearing Milo his addition yeelde To sinnowie Aiax. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 567 Those [whales] have great teeth..and are very sinewy. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 581 Fainting as he touch'd the shore, He dropt his sinewy arms. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam i. xiii. 7 The vast bird would,..with his sinewy neck, Dissolve in sudden shock those linked rings. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. vi. vii, In person, Orange was above the middle height, perfectly well made and sinewy. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. xxiii. 227 He was a sinewy little fellow.
transf.1656Heylin Surv. France 171 The Gates are very large and strong, as well in the sinewie composition of them⁓selves, as in the addition of the Drawbridge.
b. transf. Of qualities, attributes, etc.: Derived from the possession of (strong) sinews; having the strength characteristic of sinews.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 308 As motion and long during action tyres The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. Prol., Oh! that our Muse Had those abstruse and synowy faculties. 1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 186 Even this veine of laughing..hath oft⁓times a strong and sinewy force in teaching and confuting. 1784Cowper Task v. 288 When at length mankind Had reach'd the sinewy firmness of their youth. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxviii, Few were the arms whose sinewy strength Sufficed to stretch it forth at length. 1873‘Ouida’ Pascarel I. 7 Men were glad with the same sinewy force..as made them in other times laborious.
c. Of language, writings, arguments, etc. (Cf. nervous a. 3.)
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio A 2 A faithfull, elegant, sinewie, and well digested historie. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 194 Nervous and sinewy Arguments. 1718Free-thinker No. 18 The Latin Tongue has something Masculine, and Sinewy. 1863Sat. Rev. 284 An out-of-door life encourages and produces a straightforward, intelligible, sinewy style. 1885Manch. Exam. 18 Mar. 3/3 His nervous sinewy literary style will not be thrown away.
d. Similarly of speakers and writers.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. ii. Babylon 605 Cæsar, who knowes as well to write, as war: The Sinnewie Salust. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 162 Thus the sinewie Epigrammatist.
4. Of the nature of sinews; tough, stringy.
1578Banister Hist. Man 52 They [the muscles] are sinewie and broad in their begynning. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. Ep. to Rdr., Being dispersed into the muscles and skinne by meanes of certaine sinowie threedes concurring in manner of a net. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 95 Sinowie Ligaments bruised and broken. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 49 For if sinewie thred my braine lets fall Through every part. 1909Patterson Grip of the Nyika 247 Tied up with bands of sinewy tree-bark.
†5. Strung with sinews. Obs. rare.
a1593Marlowe Hero & Leander i. 371 All deepe enrag'd, his sinowie bow he bent. 1624Quarles Job Militant xv, The sinowy Bow, and deadly-headed Launce, Shall breake in shiuers. 1659Lovelace Poems (1864) 242 So by the sinewy lyre now strook we see Into soft calms all storm of poesie.
▪ II. sinewy
obs. variant of senvy. |