speary
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]speary (comparative more speary, superlative most speary)
- Having the form of a spear.
- 1867, Matthew Harman, Wayside Blossoms:
- I wandered in the wildwood,
Far from the city's din,
And plucked a dewy blossom
From off a speary whin
References
[edit]- “speary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.