thawy
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[edit]thawy (comparative more thawy, superlative most thawy)
- Becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw.
- Conducive to thawing.
- 1844, Robert Montgomery Martin, History, Statistics and Geography of Upper and Lower Canada[1], page 201:
- The N.W., which is the most frequent in winter, is dry, cold, and elastic; the S.E. soft, thawy, and rainy: the wind seldom blows from west or south, more rarely still from the north.
- 1845, Daniel Pierce Thompson, Locke Amsden, Or, The Schoolmaster: a Tale, published 1855, page 96:
- A warm and broken December had been succeeded by a still warmer and more thawy January.
- c. 1847, Elkanah Walker, edited by Clifford Merrill Drury, Nine Years with the Spokane Indians: The Diary, 1838-1848, of Elkanah Walker, published 1976, page 392:
- It has been more thawy to day but there was not much prospect that the weather will be favorable right away.