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Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird. The horses of the army . . . were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting. Swift.

In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve. [Written also shily.]

The quality or state of being shy. [Written also shiness.] Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. Baxter.

A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. [Slang, U.S.]

Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale. Shak. Ashy pale, pale as ashes. Shak.

See Basyle.

Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. [R.] "A blushy color." Harvey.

Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.

thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. [Colloq.]

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish. Pope.

ing for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. The sole of his foot is fleshy. Ray.

Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.

A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.

Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.

Formed with meshes; netted.

ke mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. G. Eliot.