a. [f. FRINGE sb. + -Y1.]
1. Of the nature of or resembling a fringe.
c. 1750. Shenstone, Elegies, xxi. 8.
| Lord of my time my devious path I bend, | |
| Throu’ fringy woodland, or smooth-shaven lawn | |
| Or pensile grove, or airy cliff ascend, | |
| And hail the scene by nature’s pencil drawn. |
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 327. The fringy termination of the Fallopian Tubes.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxv. (1856), 321. Soon from the circumference of this arch proceeded a fimbriated or fringy series of purple cirri, delicately tinted at their edges, increasing with wonderful regularity, and extending in long, ray-like processes of cloud to an altitude of some twenty degrees above the horizon.
1880. ‘Mark Twain,’ Tramp Abroad, I. 75. The gracefullest little fringy films of lace.
2. Furnished or adorned with a fringe or fringes; covered with fringes.
1831. T. L., Peacock, Crotchet Castle, xiv. (1887), 149. All that surrounded their [eyes’] fringy portals was radiant as ‘the forehead of the morning sky.’
1852. Meanderings of Mem., I. 206. Fluttering as the mantle’s fringy rim.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVII. V. VII. 48. Green, shaggy or fringy mountains looking down on it to rearward.
1886. Ruskin, Præterita, I. vi. 203. Any sort of people in conical hats and fringy caps.
Comb. 1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. iii. § 21. 228. The dog, which is one of the little curly, short-nosed, fringy-pawed things, which all Venetian ladies petted, will not now be coaxed.
