a. [f. LATHER sb. + -Y1.] Consisting of or covered with, or as with, lather. Chiefly fig., ‘frothy,’ unsubstantial. Also of a horse: Covered with foam.
1803. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., I. 399. A certain lathery tautology which makes a mouthful of breath into a cisternful of sud.
1819. Southey, Lett. (1856), III. 150. Having set aside a paper … to substitute a lathery composition of his own.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, I. xvii. 273. Sluicing, and wringing, and rinsing went on, over the bubbled and lathery turf.
1890. B. Perry, Broughton Ho., xiii. 271 (Funk). The horse was lathery from his ten miles of uphill work.
