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Definition of Sedgy
1. Adjective. Covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants).
Definition of Sedgy
1. a. Overgrown with sedge.
Definition of Sedgy
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or covered with sedge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sedgy
1. abounding in sedge [adj SEDGIER, SEDGIEST] - See also: sedge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedgy
Literary usage of Sedgy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... is generally diffused throughout Australia, wherever marshes or sedgy rivers
occur. In habits it closely resembles the bittern of Europe. ..."
2. Shelley at Oxford by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1904)
"The mother, who might well fear that it was about to be thrown over the parapet
of the bridge into the sedgy waters below, held it fast by its long train. ..."
3. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"And sedgy-bottomed Severn have I sent him Bootless home, and weather-beaten back ".
The Hotspur and Mortimer revolt against Henry IV. well illustrates, ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins by John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1832)
"Or sullen Mole, that runneth underneath ; Or Severn swift, guilty of maiden's
death ; Or rocky Avon, or of sedgy Lee, Or coaly Time, or ancient hallowed Dee ..."
5. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"The Red Sea so abounds with sedge that in the Hebrew Scriptures it is nailed "
The Weedy or sedgy Sea." Milton refers to it when he says, the rebel angels ..."
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