Also 9 lakey. [f. LAKE sb.6 + -Y1.] Of or pertaining to lake; of the color of lake; spec. of the blood, when the red corpuscles are acted upon by some solvent.
1849. Blackw. Mag., LXVI. 420. The gray stones … are of a delicate hue, blue intermingling with pale greenish and lakey tints.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xxxi. 457, note. The hæmoglobin has become diffused and the blood lakey.
