lyery

English

Adjective

lyery (comparative more lyery, superlative most lyery)

  1. (obsolete) Of cattle: having lean, dark, muscular flesh.
    • 1786, George Culley, Observations on Live Stock (page 35)
      It is probable they had stuck more to the lyery, black-beefed Dutch breed, than their more northern neighbours, at that unfortunate period when these were imported from the Continent […]
    • 1871, Thomas Bell, Thomas Bates, The History of Improved Shorthorn Or Durham Cattle (page 6)
      In Lincolnshire, which is the furthest south that we meet with any number of this kind of cattle, they are, in general, more subject to lyery, or black flesh, than those bred further north; […]
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