a. Sc. [f. SPRIT sb.3 + -Y.] Abounding in sprits or rushes.
1786. Burns, To Auld Mare, xii. ’Till sprittie knowes wad rair’t an’ risket, An’ slypet owre.
1823. J. Hogg, Sheph. Cal. (1829), I. 27. His dead master, who … was lying in a little spritty hollow.
1885. A. Munro, Siren Casket, 42. Large spritty clods from tearing hoofs In showers around them flew.
