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thready, a.|ˈθrɛdɪ|
[f. thread n. + -y.]
†1. Full of or covered with thread. Obs.
1594Willobie Avisa 37 b, When threedy spindle full was grown. 1757Dyer Fleece iii. 135 The thready shuttle glides along the lines.
2. Of thread-like texture; composed of fine fibres; stringy, fibrous.
c1425[implied in threadiness]. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. I. i. iv. 12 Its threaddy Substance may be weav'd into a Web. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 71 Amianton is a stone of a lucid colour, and thready, like feathered alum. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 371/2 The bark [of the mulberry tree]..is rough, thick, thready, and fit for being made into ropes. 1809tr. Landt's Descr. Feroe Isl. (1810) 141 Compact, thready, or radiant zeolite. 1826Carlyle Early Lett. (1886) II. 350 Abundance of grand thready peats.
b. Of liquid: Forming strings; viscid, ropy.
1733Ordinary of Newgate No. 1 Advt., Urine..foul, slimy, thready. 1846G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 182 The mucus will become very tough, and almost thready. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 435 [The fluid of a pyonephrosis] is more or less thready and glairy.
c. Of a plant: Bearing thread-like fibres or parts; filamentous, hairy. rare—1.
1804C. Smith Conversations, etc. II. Notes 204 Thready Yucca, an Aloe, I believe.
d. Having thread-like markings; veined.
1601Holland Pliny (1634) I. 493 Ioyners doe chuse the mistresse threadie grain that is most streight.
e. Threadbare; showing the threads.
1910Nation 15 Jan. 639/2 The envelope fluttered to the thready carpet.
3. Of the nature of, consisting of, or resembling a thread or a mass of loose threads; thread-like, hair-like; of a root: fibrous.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. ii. §4. 3 The roote is threddie. 1621T. Granger Comm. Eccles. xii. 6. 325 The small and threddie rootes of a tree. 1671Marten Voy. Spitzbergen in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1694) 92 Her Feathers are thready or hairy. 1698J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XX. 405 Its Style is thready, and about an Inch long. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 231 Here it will twist and fasten its thready Entanglements to them almost from top to bottom. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie i, Her black hair..would have revealed a thready glitter of grey. 1882― Castle Warlock xxviii, Many a thready weed.
4. Of the pulse: see quot. 1899.
1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 109 A frequent, and very thready Pulse. 1764Phil. Trans. LIV. 239 His pulse was too quick..and withall low and thready. 1860–1F. Nightingale Nursing 80 The pulse becomes quick, perhaps 130, and so thready, it is not like a pulse at all, but like a string vibrating just underneath the skin. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 621 The pulse becomes small, sharp, wiry or thready. 1899Syd. Soc. Lex., Thready pulse, a small, scarcely perceptible pulse found in the terminal stages of fatal diseases.
5. Of the voice, etc.: Dry and thin; wanting in fullness. (Cf. thread n. 4 b.)
1860All Year Round No. 41. 344 Incapable of knowing how exceedingly high he is pitching his thready old voice. 1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. iii. 92 Sickly pianos and thready harps. 1902R. Broughton Lavinia (ed. Tauchn.) 235 A fuller sound in the thready voice. |