wiery

English

Etymology 1

From wire. Compare fiery.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪəɹi/

Adjective

wiery (comparative more wiery, superlative most wiery)

Obsolete form of wiry.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:
  Polymnia shall be drawn with her hair hanging loose about her shoulders, resembling wiery gold.

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to Old English wær (“sea, pool”) or weir (at least one of which is cognate to Icelandic ver (“the sea”)), or to wearish.

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwɪəɹi/

Adjective

wiery (comparative more wiery, superlative most wiery)

Wet; moist; marshy.
- 1810, Charles Vancouver, General view of the agriculture of Hampshire, page 459:
  […] for subduing heaths, moors, bogs, peat-mosses, and all soils abounding with large proportions of vegetable mould, and producing a rough, sedgy, coarse, and wiery herbage; but these coarse and unprofitable coverings once destroyed, it should never again be resorted to on lands possessing a sound dry bottom, […]

Synonyms

fenny, morassy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wiery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)