thready
adjEtymology
From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.
- inherited from *thredi✻
Definitions
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.
weak.
- A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.
The neighborhood
- neighborthreaden
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA