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Definition of Thewy
1. a. Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong.
Definition of Thewy
1. Adjective. Muscular; brawny. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thewy
1. brawny [adj THEWIER, THEWIEST] - See also: brawny
Medical Definition of Thewy
1. Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thewy
Literary usage of Thewy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"3071 i Saund (Eng.) 333, a, note (7). thewy v. Ackland. ... Prowd : Thorn):«1''
thewy v. Ackland ; Powell, J., in Robinson v. Hunt, 3 Lev. ..."
2. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1794)
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3. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"At the same time, they ceded all their claim to the territory west of Pennsylvania.
Another 1785. treaty was presently held at Fort M'Intosh with theWy- ..."
4. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1894)
"... thewy of Elasticity (1862) gives the general theory >f the circular membrane
including the effects of stiffness and ..."
5. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"FIG. 106. SILHOUETTES OF in the spreading feathers of the teryx (A) AND PHEASANT (B).
tail (Fig. 107). Both of these Bascd on ^ |J^f thewy* Aflr: FIG. 107. ..."
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