a. [f. busk, var. of BUSH sb.1 + -Y; cf. BUSHY, BOSKY.] Bosky, bushy.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 99. Buskye, dumosus.

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1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., V. i. 2. The Sunne begins to peere Aboue yon busky hill.

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1600.  Tourneur, Transf. Met., xlviii. Wks. II. 206. And sometimes nibble on the buskie root.

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1606.  J. Raynolds, Dolarney’s Prim. (1880), 71. Huge Tmolus … with buskey haire.

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c. 1800.  H. K. White, Clifton Grove, 272. Yon busky dingle.

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