a. [f. THYME + -Y.]

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  1.  Abounding in or overgrown with thyme.

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1727.  Gay, Fables, I. xxii. 11. Whene’er a thymy bank he [a goat] found, He roll’d upon the fragrant ground.

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1827–35.  Willis, Flor. Gray, 3. Upon Hymettus, and the thymy isles.

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1860.  Tennyson, Sea Dreams, 38. Lingering about the thymy promontories.

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  2.  Pertaining to or of the nature of thyme; esp. having the scent of thyme.

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1747.  P. Francis, trans. Horace, Ep., I. iii. 26. The thymy Fragrance of the Spring.

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1874.  J. Brown, Lett. (1907), 228. The thymy breath and free air of the braes and hills.

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1880.  Miss Broughton, Sec. Th., III. x. The thymy sweetness of the fell breeze.

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