a. Obs. [f. FIELD sb. + -Y1.]
1. Level, open; exposed.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 214. And þus Crist cam doun of þe hill, and stood in a feldi place, and to him cam dyverse folkis.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 280. And the Lord spak these thingis to Moyses in the feeldi placis of Moab aboue Iordan aȝens Ierico.
1576. Fleming, trans. Caius’ Dogs, in Arb., Garner, III. 238. These dogs are much and usually occupied in the Northern parts of England more than in the Southern parts; and in fieldy lands rather than in bushy and woody places.
1598. Florio, Piaggioso … fieldie.
2. That grows in or inhabits the fields.
1382. Wyclif, Wisd. xix. 18. Feeldi wilde thingus in to watri ben turned.
1598. Florio, Camporeccio, fieldie, that growes in the fields.
3. Forming a field or fields. Cf. FIELD sb. 12 a.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. IV., The Handie-Crafts, 451.
| And when the sight no more pursue him may, | |
| In fieldy clouds he vanisheth it away. |
