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Beamy

Beamy \Beam"y\, a.

  1. Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. ``Beamy gold.''
    --Tickell.

  2. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.

    His double-biting ax, and beamy spear.
    --Dryden.

  3. Having horns, or antlers.

    Beamy stags in toils engage.
    --Dryden.

Wiktionary
beamy

a. 1 Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. 2 (context archaic English) Having horns or antlers. 3 (context nautical English) Having much beam or breadth; wide. 4 Showing or emitting rays of light; beaming; radiant; shining. 5 (context figuratively English) radiant; beamsome; joyous; gladsome.

WordNet
beamy
  1. adj. broad in the beam; "a beamy cargo ship"

  2. radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset" [syn: beaming, effulgent, radiant, refulgent]

Usage examples of "beamy".

Her glowing limbs beneath the sinuous veil Of woven wind, her outspread arms now bare, Her dark locks floating in the breath of night, Her beamy bending eyes, her parted lips Outstretched, and pale, and quivering eagerly.

That splendor came, in a red blaze of triumph the Sun rose, pouring a shower of beamy brilliancy over the white vastness of the heights covered with perpetual snow,--jagged peaks, sharp as scimetars and sparkling with ice, caught fire, and seemed to melt away in an absorbing sea of radiance, .

Soft new beech-leaves, up to beamy April Spreading bough on bough a primrose mountain, you Lucid in the moon, raise lilies to the skyfields, Youngest green transfused in silver shining through: Fairer than the lily, than the wild white cherry: Fair as in image my seraph love appears Borne to me by dreams when dawn is at my eye-lids: Fair as in the flesh she swims to me on tears.

She was from the Hansa city of Danzig: one-masted like a cog but longer, beamier, of the new sort that were known as hulks.

And it's ever so much beamier, with all the cool guys and the good weed and the, like .

He lifts, he turns, he poises, and admires The crested helm, that vomits radiant fires: His hands the fatal sword and corslet hold, One keen with temper'd steel, one stiff with gold: Both ample, flaming both, and beamy bright.