a. [f. STILT sb. + -Y.]

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  1.  Resembling stilts; esp. in Racing slang, said of a horse’s legs when long and stiff in action.

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1826.  [implied in STILTINESS].

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1828.  Edin. Rev., XLVII. 433. The solemn and stilty tread of the Athenian buskin.

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1863.  Sporting Mag., Sept., 230. The odds on him were speedily reduced … for he turned out to be one of the stilty sort, with a pair of awful fore-legs.

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  2.  fig. = STILTISH a.

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1846.  Worcester (cites Q. Rev.).

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1873.  Wagner, trans. Teuffel’s Hist. Rom. Lit., II. 159. His stilty tone and artificial conciseness.

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1889.  Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 317. Macready … I once accidentally met … at dinner…. I remember … my impression of him as stilty.

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