a. [f. ESSAY sb. + -ISH.] Of the nature of an essay.
1863. A. P. Paton, Wilson the Ornithologist, 9. It is a fair specimen of that essayish style of letter-writing which characterised the epistles of Burns and Wilson.
a. [f. ESSAY sb. + -ISH.] Of the nature of an essay.
1863. A. P. Paton, Wilson the Ornithologist, 9. It is a fair specimen of that essayish style of letter-writing which characterised the epistles of Burns and Wilson.
