† spissyadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Dense, compact.
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1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iiiv/2 Spissy, massy, spissus.
1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione Vindic. Poesie H 7 The spissye aire..Turnes into sea, earth's made a thickned water.
1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor (1686) i. 101 Sometimes with the digg'd Gold..there breaks a small grey spissy Oar.
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