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sleety, a.|ˈsliːtɪ|
[f. sleet n.1 + -y1.]
1. a. Of storms, wind, etc.: Laden with, accompanied by, sleet.
1725Ramsay Gentl. Sheph. iii. iii, I've seen with shining fair the morning rise, And soon the sleety clouds mirk a' the skies. 1777Warton Ode 1st of April 7 The sleety storm returning still, The morning hoar, and evening chill. 1849Whittier Legend St. Mark i, The day is closing dark and cold, With roaring blast and sleety showers. 1884Harper's Mag. Apr. 741/2 A cold sleety wind.
b. Resembling sleet; sleet-like.
1804in Sir H. Davy Rem. (1858) 93 The sleety rain was still falling. 1846Dickens Cricket on Hearth i, The water—being..in that slippy, slushy, sleety sort of state wherein it seems to penetrate through every kind of substance. 1892H. Hutchinson Fairway Island 51 The flakes were at first small and sleety.
c. Suggestive of, produced by, sleet.
a1821Keats Stanzas i, The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them. 1897Crockett Lads' Love xxv. 253 The sprinkled sleety grey-green of the water⁓meadow.
2. Of weather or time: Characterized by the presence or prevalence of sleet.
1816Jane Austen Emma II. xvii. 329 The evening of a cold sleety April day. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 466 It was mid-winter; snowy, foggy, sleety, wet. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer ii, That dismal sleety morning. 1876Davis Polaris Exp. xxii. 567 At first it snowed and was sleety. |