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a. 1. Consisting of arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot
Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. “His arrowy tongue.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Moist with dew; dewy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. [ 1913 Webster ]

And whitening down the many-tinctured stream,
Descends the billowy foam. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bow, like lawyer from law. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An archer; one who uses bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who makes or sells bows. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dewy mist
Went and watered all the ground. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

When dewy eve her curtain draws. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dewy sleep ambrosial. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Frowzy, Frouzy. ] Musty; rancid; as, frowy butter. “Frowy feed.” Spenser [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furrowed. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Gladen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the jaws. Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Law, like bowyer, fr. bow. ] 1. One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt. (b) The bowfin (Amia calva). (c) The burbot (Lota maculosa). [ 1913 Webster ]

Philadelphia lawyer, A lawyer knowledgeable about the most detailed and minute points of law, especially one with an exceptional propensity and ability to exploit fine technical points of law for the client's advantage. [ PJC ]

n. A stout-stemmed trailing shrub (Rubus cissoides) of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth.
Syn. -- lawyer bush, bush lawyer, Rubus cissoides, Rubus australis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity. “Lawyerly mooting of this point.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of marrow; pithy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Soft; unctuous. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mower. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Overshadowing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Prob. fr. Malay pīnang līar. ] A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A lawyer knowledgeable about the most detailed and minute points of law, especially one with an exceptional propensity and ability to exploit fine technical points of law for the client's advantage. [ U. S. ] [ PJC ]

a. Like a pillow. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Saw + -yer, as in lawyer. Cf. Sawer. ] 1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The bowfin. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The gray snapper. See under Snapper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. “Shadowy verdure.” Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. “The shadowy past.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
Shadowy sets off the face things. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Faintly representative; hence, typical. [ 1913 Webster ]

From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy
and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Showier superl. Showiest. ] Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy. [ 1913 Webster ]

A present of everything that was rich and showy. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Splendid; gay; gaudy; gorgeous; fine; magnificent; grand; stately; sumptuous; pompous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sinewy thread my brain lets fall. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man whose words . . . were so close and sinewy. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. White like snow. “So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Abounding with snow; covered with snow. “The snowy top of cold Olympus.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. [ 1913 Webster ]

There did he lose his snowy innocence. J. Hall (1646). [ 1913 Webster ]

Snowy heron (Zool.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chile; -- called also plume bird. --
Snowy lemming (Zool.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter. --
Snowy owl (Zool.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or Nyctea nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots. Called also white owl. --
Snowy plover (Zool.), a small plover (Aegialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wet; soggy; inclined to spew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Quickly. See Swithe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) The quinnat salmon. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Composed of, or like, tow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Twayblade. [ 1913 Webster ]

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[ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

A government intent on showy absurdities and viewy enterprises rather than solid work. London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also . [ AS. wēn. ] One of the runes (&unr_;) adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w.

a. 1. Abounding with willows. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. [ R. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Wyandot /sing>. (Ethnol.) Same as Hurons. [ Written also Wyandottes, and Yendots. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. wiche a kind of elm, AS. wice a kind of tree. Cf. Wicker. ] (Bot.) A species of elm (Ulmus montana) found in Northern and Western Europe; Scotch elm. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By confusion this word is often written witch-elm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wide. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Wyes [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The letter Y. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a). [ 1913 Webster ]