Definition of "leavy" [leav•y]

• An older form of leafy (consisting of leaves). (adjective)

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• "About the dais behind the thwart-table were now stuck for adornment leavy boughs of oak now just beginning to turn with the first frosts."
• "This oak with his wide leavy branches will shelter our heads from the night;"
• "So having contrived & discovered that they weare resolved to leavy an armie of 500 men of their owne nation, who are esteemed the best souldiers, having the Anojot to assist them; a bold, rash nation, and so thought to surprise the inhabitants of that place."