a. Now Sc. Also 5 livi, lyfy, 9 lifie. [f. LIFE sb. + -Y.] † a. Characteristic of or belonging to life (obs.). b. Lively, spirited.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 119. Not oonly animal vertues … ben I-chaungid, also naturel & liui vertues [Add. MS. lyfy].
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. xxxix. 359. A tenderness … that … runs through one’s heart, in the same lifey current.
1808–25. Jamieson, Lifey, lively, spirited.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 64. There never march’d for open weir A troop sae lifey and sae jolly.
