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slaty, a.|ˈsleɪtɪ|
Also 7 slatie, 8 slatey.
[f. slate n.1 + -y.]
1. Composed of slate; resembling slate; having the nature or properties of slate. Also of land: Lying upon slate (quot. 1733).
In the earliest quots. the sense is perhaps ‘stony, rocky’.
a1529Skelton E. Rummyng 258 Some go streyght thyder, Be it slaty or slyder; They holde the hye waye [etc.]. 1538Leland Itin. (1768) I. 62 An exceding..strong Castelle on a stepe Rok, having but one way by the stepe slaty crag to cum to it. 1611Cotgr., Ardoisin,..slatie, or, of slate. 1670W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 65 Blew slate..and other slaty stone mixed therewith. 1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 19 [The stone-coal] is subject to be a little Slaty. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xiv. 199 These Estates consisted of Thin Slatey Land. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 153 Slaty Copper ore, or Cupriferous Marlite. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 16 Hard flint they sat upon, Couches of rugged stone, and slaty ridge. 1865J. T. F. Turner Slate Quarries 5 From Newquay to above Boscastle the rocks..are of a slaty character.
2. Characteristic or typical of slate. slaty cleavage: see cleavage 1 c.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 83 Of a slaty fracture. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. (1857) III. 445 The slaty cleavage never coincides with the direction of the strata. 1854Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Techn. (ed. 2) I. 45 The principal fracture is straight, slaty.
3. a. Slate-coloured.
1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 176 The slaty or purplish and granular saburra thrown up from the stomach. 1868G. Macdonald Seaboard Parish II. v. 77 The sun had disappeared under a cloud, and the sea had turned a little slaty. 1893Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 202 A slaty patch extending from the shoulder and hip to the legs.
b. slaty gum: (see quots.).
1889J. H. Maiden Useful Pl. 470 Eucalyptus largiflorens... Also called ‘Slaty Gum’, from the grey and white patches on the bark. Ibid. 524 Eucalyptus tereticornis... Called..‘Slaty Gum’ in New South Wales and Queensland.
4. Smacking of slate.
1824Henderson Anc. & Mod. Wines 226 The better sorts [of Moselle wines]..sometimes contract a slaty taste from the strata on which they grow. 1981Woman's Jrnl. Mar. 135/3 Duck is..on the fatty side, so we need a dry, even slaty, wine to accompany it.
5. Comb.
a. With names of colours, as slaty-black, slaty-blue, slaty-green, slaty-grey.
1818Scott Rob Roy xxx, A broken track along the precipitous face of a slaty grey rock. 1826Stephens in Shaw Gen. Zool. XIII. ii. 164 Slaty-black Graucalus with the head and neck..black. 1854[see jacinth 1 e]. 1859Darwin Orig. Species i. (1860) 25 The rock-pigeon is of a slaty-blue, with white loins. 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd v, A coat..approximating in colour to white and slaty grey. 1975H. R. F. Keating Remarkable Case of Burglary i. 1 The slaty-blue eyes in his thin pale face.
b. Misc., as slaty-headed, slaty-like, slaty-looking, etc.
a1866R. Dick in Smiles Life (1878) 91 The cliffs—now yellowish, then reddish—now thin and slaty-like. 1876Nature XIV. 580/1 A Slaty-headed Parrakeet. 1882Cent. Mag. XXV. 241 Gray, slaty-looking little towns. |