[f. CINDER sb. + -Y1.]
1. Of the nature or consistency of a cinder; abounding in cinders.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., I. (1593), 12. The roofe … with cindrie mosse was almost over-growne.
1800. Hurdis, Fav. Village, 97. A sear’d and cindery spot.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 104. Lead … in the form of a black cindery precipitate.
1833. Lyell, Princ. Geol., III. 187. Light cindery volcanic matter.
b. fig. Where the fire has burnt out.
1878. Symonds, Sonn. M. Angelo, xlvi. Within an old man’s cindery breast.
2. Begrimed with cinders.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, 379. Mr. Toodle, cindery and swart, was refreshing himself with tea.
