thready

adj

Etymology

From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.

  1. inherited from *thredi

Definitions

  1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread

    Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.

    • The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.
  2. weak.

    • A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.

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