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blady, a.|ˈbleɪdɪ|
[f. blade n. + -y1.]
Characterized by a blade or blades; blade-like. Esp. in blady grass; spec. the coarse grass Imperata arundinacea of Australia, Indonesia, etc.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xix. (1748) 333 The blady grass unwholesome..and harsh. 1645Digby Nat. Bodies xxiv. (1658) 267 How should a bone here be hollow, there be blady. a1758J. Dyer To Aaron Hill 41 With curling moss and blady grass o'ergrown. 1827P. M. Cunningham N.S. Wales II. xxvii. 170 The roof being..thatched with blady grass. 1847L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Exped. Australia iii. 59 The blady-grass had..begun to show its young shoots. 1864G. M. Hopkins Poems (1948) 120 I'll take in hand the blady stone And to my palm the point apply. 1918Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 140/1 Utilising the lalang or ‘blady’ grass, for the manufacture of paper-pulp. |