[f. SWAN sb. + -Y.]
1. Full of or abounding in swans.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VII. (1593), 163. The swannie Temp [orig. Cycneia Tempe] and Hyries poole he viewed from above.
1640. J. Gower, Ovid’s Festiv., IV. 87. Next Camarine with Swanny Tempe [orig. Heloria Tempe] fair.
1859. in Campbell, Tales W. Highlands, xvii c. (1860), I. 291. From the loved swanny glen.
2. Of or pertaining to, or resembling that of, a swan.
1598. F. Rous, Thule, T 3 b. But O my pen transforme thy swanny face, And in eternall streames my inck shall weepe.
1602. trans. Guarini’s Pastor Fido, I. i. B 1 b. More purely white then swanny downe.
1604. Pricket, Honors Fame (1881), 29. A Swanny whitenes.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. v. 22. The swanny glossiness of a neck late so stately.
1829. W. Taylor, Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, II. 114. Girt in the swanny arms of fair Glycera.
