a. [f. BREEZE sb.2 + -Y1.]
1. Exposed to breezes, swept by the breeze.
1718. Pope, Iliad, II. 758. The warriors standing on the breezy shore.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., I. 471. The shadows of the breezy elms above.
1859. Capern, Ball. & Songs, 137. Health laughs on every breezy hill.
Mod. High on the breezy downs.
2. Attended with breezes, full of breezes, windy; fig. fresh, brisk; airy.
1753. Gray, Elegy, vi. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
1798. Wordsw., Lines wr. in Early Spring. To catch the breezy air.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 237. The night was breezy and cloudy.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. II. (1873), 163. Whose breezy verse seems to float between a blue sky and golden earth.
