leavy

leavy (comparative leavier, superlative leaviest)

1. Archaic form of leafy.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 3,

     Within the furthest end thereof there was a pleasant Bowre

     So vaulted with the leauie trées the Sunne had there no powre:

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 6, First Folio, 1623, p. 150,

     Now neere enough:

     Your leauy Skreenes throw downe,

     And shew like those you are […]

   • 1758, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Edinburgh, Canto 2, p. 20,

     Thus when devouring hatchet-men invade,

     With sounding steel, the forest’s leavy head,

     The mountains ring with their repeated strokes;

• leaviness

• Alvey, Lavey, Leyva, vealy