a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.]

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  1.  Full of, or supplying, food. (Only in Chapman.)

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XI. 103.

        Rememb’ring them the prisoners of swift Æacides,
Who brought them to the sable fleet from Ida’s foody leas.
    Ibid., XV. 636.
          Jove’s great queen of birds …
Beholds where cranes, swans, cormorants, have made their foody fall.
    Ibid. (1615), Odyss., II. 558.
She … into well-sew’d sacks pour’d foody meal.

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  2.  Of wool (expressing superior quality).

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1805.  Luccock, Nat. Wool, 123–4. In the blunt language of the clothier, who often expresses his ideas in very appropriate, though not always in the most elegant terms, wool of this discription is distinguished by the epithets foody and flowery: words immediately conveying to an English ear, a conviction of the high estimation in which such fleeces are held.

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