leady
English
Etymology
From Middle English leddy, ledy, ledi, equivalent to lead + -y.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛdi
Adjective
leady (comparative more leady, superlative most leady)
- Resembling lead (the metal).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. Elyot to this entry?)
Derived terms
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “leady”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)