a. Also 5 varty, 6–7 wartie, 8 wharty, 9 Sc. wrattie. [f. WART sb. + -Y.]
1. Afflicted with warts on the skin.
1483. Cath. Angl., 409/1. Varty, verucosus.
1570. Levins, Manip., 111/44. Wartie, verrucosus.
1605. Camden, Rem., Names, Dorcas, 78. Freckled, wartie, and wodden-faced wenches.
1655. [J. Phillips], Sat. agst. Hypocr., 5. Oh how he’s wonder’d at by many an asse That see him shake so fast his warty fist.
1825. Beddoes, Poems, A Ruffian. Brown and warty hands.
1898. Blakeborough, Wit, Char. etc. N. Riding, 138. The charmer … Told the warty one to go home.
2. Chiefly Zool., Bot., etc. Having wart-like excrescences or protuberances.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. 86. The Leschasserie pears are pretty often … bunch’d and warty.
c. 1711. Petiver, Gazophyl., X. Tab. 97. White Warty Gowry.
1768. G. White, Selborne, To Pennant, 8 Oct. A large black warty lizard.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), I. 246. Capsules are hairy, warty, or smooth.
1863. Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., III. 168. The Warty Toad of Fernando Po (Bufo tuberosus).
1894. Du Maurier, Trilby, II. 205. Tall, warty, black-boled trees.
1914. Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci., LX. I. 69. The head [of the tadpole] is somewhat warty and wrinkled.
3. Of the nature of, or resembling, a wart.
1762. Gentl. Mag., XXXII. 82/1. The whole eruption put on a very wharty and palid appearance.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 49. A warty excrescence on the tip of Hymenaeus’s little finger.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 228. Seeds with many warty angles.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem., III. 59. Glucose crystallizes with difficulty in warty concretions.
1861. Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. 289. The warty tubercles on the loins.
1897. Garden, 9 Jan., 20/3. Extravasation of sap occurs, giving rise to … warty growths.
4. fig. Rocky, rough.
1648. Herrick, Hesp., Dear-bourn, a rude River in Devon. Dean-bourn, farewell; I never look to see Deane, or thy warty [some copies watry] incivility.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XI. 163. ‘An Ode,’ rather warty, came to Nap Buonaparte.
5. Comb.
c. 1711. Petiver, Gazophyl., IX. Tab. 85. Warty-rib’d Cape Limpet.
1836. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 786/2. Covered with little warty-looking enlargements.
1857. Anne Pratt, Flower. Pl., III. 152. Galium saccharatum (Warty-fruited Bed-straw).
c. 1880. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., IV. 74. The Warty-faced Honey-eater (Meliphaga phrygia).
