a. Now rare or Obs. [f. WEN1 + -Y.]
1. Of the nature of or similar to a wen.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. clxvi. 463. A remedie against … hard wennie swellings.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Goitrons, The wennie bags that breed vnder the throats of the most inhabitants of the Alpes.
1672. Wiseman, Wounds, II. App. i. 79. I have had some persons … so deformed with these [cicatrices], as they have suspected them to be wenny.
1748. Phil. Trans., XLV. 536. Wenny Tumours of a monstrous Size.
1766. Compl. Farmer, Dd i. Capellets, in horses, are particular swellings … of a wenny nature, which grow on the heel of the hock, and on the point of the elbow.
2. Afflicted with wens; goitrous.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 60. The women are … for the most part wenny, that is, having great bunches under their chinnes with drinking snow water.
1786. trans. Beckford’s Vathek, 110. Others … with hump-backs, wenny necks, and even horns.
