leavy

leavy

See also: Leavy

English

Adjective

leavy (comparative leavier, superlative leaviest)

1. Archaic form of leafy.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 3,

     Within the furthest end thereof there was a pleasant Bowre

     So vaulted with the leauie trées the Sunne had there no powre:

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene vi]:

     Now neere enough:
     Your leauy Skreenes throw downe,
     And shew like those you are […]

   • 1758, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Edinburgh, Canto 2, p. 20,

     Thus when devouring hatchet-men invade,

     With sounding steel, the forest’s leavy head,

     The mountains ring with their repeated strokes;

Derived terms

• leaviness

Anagrams

• Alvey, Lavey, Leyva, vealy