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Definition of thready

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adj

  1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
    “The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.”
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adj

  1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
    “The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.”
  2. weak.
    “A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.”

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Etymology

From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.

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