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Laky

//ˈleɪki// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling a lake.

    "By bulwark, line, and battlement, And flanking towers, and laky flood , Guarded and garrison'd she stood"

  2. 2
    Of the color of a lake pigment; murky.
  3. 3
    Transparent; said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

Etymology

From Middle English laky, equivalent to lake + -y.

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