leavy

comparative more leavy · superlative most leavy

1. alternativeAlternative form of leafy.

   Now neere enough: Your leauy Skreenes throw downe, And shew like those you are […]

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]

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   Within the furthest end thereof there was a pleasant Bowre So vaulted with the leauie trées the Sunne had there no powre:

   1567, Ovid, “The Third Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC

   Thus when devouring hatchet-men invade, With sounding steel, the forest’s leavy head, The mountains ring with their repeated strokes;

   1758, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Edinburgh: Canto 2, page 20

   Put a good bunch of leavy herbs, such as basil, marjoram, dill, tarragon and parsley into the blender or processor and process for a few moments until roughly chopped, then add the butter, garlic and seasoning and continue as above.

   1991, Mary Berry, Mary Berry’s Cookery Course, Piatkus, →ISBN, page 224

   While painted rails give you the impression that you are crossing a bridge and winding paths provide coherence to the shade lover’s garden, where white painted ladies shelter in the leavy coolness.

   1994, Glorious New Zealand Gardens, Premier Books, →ISBN

   A low road ran off Queen Margaret Drive, where the BBC was situated, and alongside the leavy, tree-lined Botanic Gardens.

   1996, Margaret Thomson Davis, A Kind of Immortality, London: Century, →ISBN, page 192

plural Leavys

1. A surname.