Wiresome

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised or marked by wire or wires; wiry.

    "By forest fountains hast thou seen / The wiresome, fairy sight, / Where banks are clad in mosses green, / Some dark, and some so bright?"

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"By forest fountains hast thou seen / The wiresome, fairy sight, / Where banks are clad in mosses green, / Some dark, and some so bright?"

Etymology

From wire + -some.

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