a. [f. as prec. + -Y.] Containing turpentine; having the smell or other properties of turpentine; smeared with turpentine.

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1735.  Dict. Polygraph., I. S ij. The best wood for this purpose,… provided it be not turpentiny.

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 718/2. Manna of Briançon, a turpentiny saccharine exudation from the larch.

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1894.  Du Maurier, Trilby, III. (1901), 44/2. Clasping his painty turpentiny hand.

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1906.  Macm. Mag., Sept., 800. I should have … got my fingers all sticky and turpentiney.

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