a. [f. CHASM + -Y1.]
1. Abounding with chasms; full of breaks.
1797. Monthly Mag., IV. 334. A strange, incongruous, chasmy compilation.
1866. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 146. A strange high-lying chasmy place.
2. Of the nature of or like a chasm.
1793. Wordsw., Descr. Sk., 249. They cross the chasmy torrent’s foam-lit bed.
1876. Mrs. Whitney, Sights & Ins., xxv. 248. The passage plunged again into a chasmy shaft.
3. Void, abyssal.
1855. Bailey, Mystic, 39.
| By his ætherial side he paused who pours, | |
| (On templed tablet traced), from ample urn, | |
| The first effusion into chasmy space. |
