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thistly, a.|ˈθɪs(ə)lɪ|
[f. thistle n. + -y.]
1. Of the nature of or resembling a thistle; spiny, prickly; consisting of or consituted by thistles. (In 1611, made of ‘thistles’, i.e. teasel-heads.)
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iv. Columnes 625 That shell [of the chestnut] incas't in a thick thistly fell. 1611Cotgr., Applaneur de draps, the Cloathworker; who with his thistly cards doth smooth, and stroake down clothes. 1784Cowper Task vi. 768 The land..Exults to see its thistly curse repealed. 1845G. Struthers in Ess. Chr. Union vii. (1851) 416 The plant of schism has put forth its thistly spines wherever it has been carried.
2. Full of, abounding or overgrown, with thistles.
1710Tusser Redivivus in T.'s Husb. (1878) 129 note, Where the Wheat is thistly. 1727–46Thomson Summer 1658 Wide o'er the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze, A whitening shower of vegetable down Amusive floats. 1900Hudson Nat. in Downland 41 Thistly and weedy wastelands.
3. fig. (from 1 and 2).
1784Cowper Task iv. 335 A world, so thorny,..where none Finds happiness..Without some thistly sorrow at it's side. 1866Howells Venet. Life 342 Converted into a fortress..all thistly with bayonets. 1889Harper's Mag. Mar. 661/1 Wandering..into thistly byways of dissent. |