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spiney

spiney is the dated form of spiny.

Meaning of spiny

Adjective

spiny (comparative spinier, superlative spiniest)

  1. Covered in spines or thorns.
    Synonyms:
    thorny, prickly
  2. Troublesome; difficult or vexing.
    • The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles
    Synonyms:
    thorny, prickly
  3. Like a spine in shape; slender.
    • And, as in well-growne woods, on trees, cold ſpinie Graſhoppers / Sit chirping, […][1611?], Homer, “The Third Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 40

Forms of spiney

comparativemore spiney
superlativemost spiney

Questions about spiney

What is spiney the dated form of?
Spiney is the dated form of spiny.

Words near spiney in the dictionary

  1. spinetoram
  2. spinets
  3. spinette
  4. spinetted
  5. spinettes
  6. spiney
  7. spinfected
  8. spinfection
  9. spinfections
  10. spinfoam
  11. spinfoams

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