▪ I. † ˈrawky, a.1 Obs. rare—1.
[f. dial. rawk gum (of the eye), slime.]
Slimy, gummy.
| 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 229 Their noses dropping,..Their eyne rawky, and all their face unpure. |
▪ II. ˈrawky, a.2 rare.
Also 7 raukie.
[f. rawk var. roke + -y. Cf. roky a.1]
Foggy, misty; raw.
| 1601 Weever Mirr. Mart. E iij, The gloomie morning..Muffled in mists and raukie vapours rose. a 1864 Clare Rem. (1873) 227 Nameless flowers..Culled in cold and rawky hours. 1869–82 in Lanc. glossaries. 1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress of Mistresses x. 194 The air between the cliffs, ruffled in mists and rawky vapours. 1936 J. G. Horne Flooer o' Ling 22 Or rawky day creeps up the sky. |