marshyadj.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xli. 2 Seuen faire oxen..wern yfedd in mershi placez.

a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) 609 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 295 (MED) Bot þat contrey was lowe & mersshy, watery londe.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Lieu marescageux, marshy ground.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iii. 42 Yee..be grac't With floods, or marshie fels.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 And from the marshy Land Salt Herbage for the fodd'ring Rack provide. View more context for this quotation

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 21 A restless night, in a marshy and unwholsome ground.

1769 R. Price Observ. Reversionary Payments (1792) II. 378 Proofs of the Insalubrity of marshy Situations.

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Roche, 1. The strata above a marshy deposit; 2. Earth mingled with stone; 3. Any strata which is superincumbent to the one about to be worked.

1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. xxv. 517 Over a marshy ravine in front of the right, a large redoubt was placed.

1911 G. Macdonald Roman Wall Scotl. 132 The field at the bottom is still wet and marshy.

1974 N. Gordimer Conservationist 214 The weight of a boot on the grass..lets you into the water: it's all marshy down there.

1986 J. Huxley Leaves of Tulip Tree iv. 76 The sprawling commons with their old trees and marshy lakes.

1595 F. Sabie Flora's Fortune sig. E3 He ran to it, supposing it had been One of his lambs, hang'd in the marshy reeds.

1662 J. A. Komensky Janua Ling. Triling. xiii. 22 Those fenny (marshy) ones are also shrubby.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 104 Their wanton appetites not only feed With delicates of Leaves, and marshy Weed, But [etc.] . View more context for this quotation

1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. v. 6 Nor old,..nor excellent, my Wine, Of five Years Vintage, and a marshy Vine.

1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 127 Wild marshy grass, rushes, sparts, bents, brambles and brushwood.

1870 A. R. Wallace Contrib. Theory Nat. Select. (1871) 53 The prevalent forms and colours of marshy vegetation.

1883 Longman's Mag. July 308 The marshy water-avens has exactly the same dusky purplish-yellow tint as the marshy comarum.

1939 Ecology 20 190 The stabilized shore line comprises a marginal zone of sedges and marshy grass-like plants forming a more or less floating fringe of fibrous peat.

1963 Ecol. Monogr. 33 369/1 These depressions became occupied by marshy reed and sedge communities that built the basal sedge peats.

1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 57 The horses stood in the marshy grass and sucked quietly at the water.