gravelish, a.
(ˈgrævəlɪʃ)
[f. gravel n. + -ish.]
1. Of the nature of gravel; containing an admixture of gravel.
| 1530 Palsgr. 314/2 Gravelysshe belongyng to the nature of gravell, areneux. 1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. xxxv. (1653) 228 Very warm earth, either a little gravellish or sandish. 1806 Gazetteer Scotl. (ed. 2) 328 The soil is light, shallow, and gravellish, but tolerably fertile. |
2. Resembling, or indicative of, the disease called gravel.
| 1757 Whytt in Phil. Trans. I. 214 In February 1737 he began to take soap; and after 1743 never had any gravelish symptoms. 1789 Saunders Ibid. LXXIX. 105 Gravelish complaints..are..unknown here. 1806 Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 412 The waters..are of great service in gravelish, scorbutic, and scrophulous affections. 1831 Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 437, I am sorry to find..that you continue troubled with gravelish complaints. |