adj. (colloquial).—Thin.

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  1748.  G. WEST, On the Abuse of Travelling, st. xx.

        The which he tossed to and fro amain,
And eft his LATHY falchion brandished.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. LATHY, … a LATHY wench, a girl almost as slender as a lath.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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  1857.  B. TAYLOR, Northern Travel, 204. A LATHY young man … was struggling … to right himself.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.

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