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warty, a.|ˈwɔːtɪ|
Also 5 varty, 6–7 wartie, 8 wharty, 9 Sc. wrattie.
[f. wart n. + -y.]
1. Afflicted with warts on the skin.
1483Cath. Angl. 409/1 Varty, verucosus. 1570Levins Manip. 111/44 Wartie, verrucosus. 1605Camden Rem., Names, Dorcas 78 Freckled, wartie, and wodden-faced wenches. 1655[J. Phillips] Sat. agst. Hypocr. 5 Oh how he's wonder'd at by many an asse That see him shake so fast his warty fist. c1825Beddoes Poems, A Ruffian, Brown and warty hands. 1898R. Blakeborough Wit, Char. etc. N. Riding 138 The charmer..Told the warty one to go home.
2. Chiefly Zool., Bot., etc. Having wart-like excrescences or protuberances.
1693Evelyn De La Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 86 The Leschasserie pears are pretty often..bunch'd and warty. c1711Petiver Gazophyl. x. Tab. 97 White Warty Gowry. 1768G. White Selborne, To Pennant 8 Oct., A large black warty lizard. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 246 Capsules are hairy, warty, or smooth. 1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 168 The Warty Toad of Fernando Po (Bufo tuberosus). 1894Du Maurier Trilby II. 205 Tall, warty, black-boled trees. 1914Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. LX. i. 69 The head [of the tadpole] is somewhat warty and wrinkled.
3. Of the nature of, or resembling, a wart.
1762Gentl. Mag. XXXII. 82/1 The whole eruption put on a very wharty and palid appearance. 1767A. Campbell Lexiph. (1774) 49 A warty excrescence on the tip of Hymenaeus's little finger. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 228 Seeds with many warty angles. 1857Miller Elem. Chem. iii. 59 Glucose crystallizes with difficulty in warty concretions. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. 289 The warty tubercles on the loins. 1897Garden 9 Jan. 20/3 Extravasation of sap occurs, giving rise to..warty growths.
4. fig. Rocky, rough.
1648Herrick Hesp., Dean-bourn, a rude River in Devon, Dean-bourn, farewell; I never look to see Deane, or thy warty [some copies watry] incivility. 1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 163 ‘An Ode,’ rather warty, came to Nap Buonaparte.
5. Comb.
c1711Petiver Gazophyl. ix. Tab. 85 Warty-rib'd Cape Limpet. 1836Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 786/2 Covered with little warty-looking enlargements. 1857Anne Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 152 Galium saccharatum (Warty-fruited Bed⁓straw). c1880Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 74 The Warty-faced Honey-eater (Meliphaga phrygia). |