lithy

I obeyed, and forthwith the animal set off at a trot, which gradually increased in swiftness till it became a downright furious speedy trot; his limbs were now thoroughly lithy, and he brandished his fore legs in

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

I obeyed, and forthwith the animal set off at a trot, which gradually increased in swiftness till it became a downright furious speedy trot; his limbs were now thoroughly lithy, and he brandished his fore legs in a manner perfectly wondrous; the mule of Antonio, which was a spirited animal of excellent paces, would fain have competed with him, but was passed in a twinkling.

The Bible in Spain 1712

K Stickler or Party chiefly in Matters of on: Alfo a Scparatift ifmaiick. hin or Zachiny a gold about ys. 6 d. in value. ffirkijh Zeihin is worth lithy (Arab.) in Attro -, is the Point of the

Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ... 1707

A wild-looking figure is descending the hill with terrible bounds; it is a lad of some fifteen years; he is bare-headed, and his red uncombed hair stands on end like hedgehogs 'bristles; his frame is lithy, like that of an antelope, but he has prodigious breadth of chest; he wears a military undress, that of the regiment, even of a drummer, for it is wild Davy, whom a month before I had seen enlisted on

Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842