a. [f. BLOW v.1 + -Y1.] Characterized by blowing.
1830. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. IV. (1863), 269. It was a raw blowy March evening.
1840. Willis, Loiterings of Trav., III. 239. This [passage of the Irish Channel] was a seventeen hours’ job, including a very cold, blowy, and rough night.
1864. Ld. Palmerston, in Daily Tel., 26 Aug., 5/6. I had at one time nearly 1,000 acres of blowy sand where no blade of grass grew.
