a. [f. LATH sb. + -Y1.]
1. Resembling a lath; thin or long and thin like a lath. Said esp. of a very thin person.
1672. Wood, Life (O.H.S.), II. 239. Duns Scotus his picture—a leane lathie man.
a. 1756. G. West, Abuse Trav., xx. He … eft his lathy falchion brandished.
1784. J. Barry, in Lect. Paint., iii. (1848), 148. In some parts of the profile view it is too lathy and slender.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, ii. His figure was gaunt and lathy.
1851. Fraser’s Mag., XLIII. 167/1. From the hips downwards he was remarkably well made, straight, and lathy.
1881. R. G. White, Eng. Without & Within, ix. 201. The elder daughter was, I will not say a lathy girl, but very slim.
1893. E. H. Barker, Wand. South. Waters, 265. The lathy poplars leaning in every direction by the edge of the torrent.
2. Made of lath (and plaster).
1804. Collins, Scripscrapologia, 12.
| One of John Bull’s TRUE Breed, over-hearing, by chance, | |
| Through a lathy partition, those good friends to France. |
1855. Househ. Words, XII. 215/1. We are divided only by a lathy partition.
