firry

English

Etymology

From fir +‎ -y.

Adjective

firry (comparative more firry, superlative most firry)

  1. Abounding in firs.
    • 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller’s Daughter”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza VI, page 35:
      I often heard the cooing dove / In firry woodlands mourn alone, […]
  2. Made of fir wood.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “firry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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