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Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry. Coy, and difficult to win. Cowper. Coy and furtive graces. W. Irving. Nor the coy maid, half willings to be pressed, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. Goldsmith.…

A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood.

A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.

Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.

lue of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.

tralia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.

A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

Having a compact, bushy form.

ty white. Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [Obs.] S. Butler.

nce. -- False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus. -- False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane. -…

Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm. [Obs.] Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain. Spenser.

ion to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance. To fight shy, to avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach.

njured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.