a. Forms: 6 wheye, 6–7 whayey, 7 whayie, wheyie, whaey, 7– wheyey. [f. WHEY sb. + -Y1.] Of the nature of whey; consisting of, containing or resembling whey.

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1547.  Recorde, Judic. Uryne, 13 b. Urine is the superfluitie or wheye substaunce of the bloude in the hollow vayne.

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1572.  J. Jones, Buckstones Bathes Benefyte, 18. The whayey, thinne, and subtyle humoures.

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1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 95. The serous or wheyie part of the bloud.

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1708.  Brit. Apollo, No. 23. 2/1. The more Wheyey Parts of the Chyle.

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1778.  Pennant, Tour in Wales (1883), I. 54. Discolored by a wheyey tinge.

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1822.  Good, Study Med., IV. 81. The surface of which [sc. the bladder] pours forth a cheesy or wheyey fluid.

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1847.  W. C. L. Martin, The Ox, 29/1. A separation of the buttery and wheyey parts.

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  Hence Wheyiness, wheyey quality.

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1662.  J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 220. They prefer Asses milk before the rest, by reason of its thin substance, and very much wheyinesse.

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