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dimmy, a.|ˈdɪmɪ|
[f. dim a. + -y: cf. blacky, bluey.]
Having dimness; more or less dim.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi, The derkenesse of the dymmy night. 1580Sidney Arcadia iv. (1622) 441 You dimmie clouds. 1582Bentley Mon. Matrones 181 Dazeled with the dimmie and darke mists of Sathan. 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 119 The dimmy ayre now cleerer growes. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 98 If she [the moon] shall have clipped The darksome ether with a dimmy horn. |