a. Obs. rare. [f. L. spiss-us SPISS a.] Dense, compact.
1570. Levins, Manip., 108. Spissy, massy, spissus.
1637. N. Whiting, Albino & Bellama, Vind. Poesy, H 7. The spissye aire … Turnes into sea, earth’s made a thickned water.
1683. Pettus, Fleta Min., I. (1686), 101. Sometimes with the digg’d Gold … there breaks a small grey spissy Oar.
