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  • adjective comparative form of coy: more coy

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Examples

  • Ring beam on top of a thin pit lining to support the coyer slab

    Chapter 5 1992

  • TRADE MARK This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or coyer other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

    HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

  • -- To mark tools, first coyer the article to be marked with a thin coating of tallow or beeswax, and with a sharp instrument write the name in the tallow.

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

  • Mr.P. Cunliffe Owen, familiar with all the minutiæ of previous expositions, declares them supreme "in thoroughness of plan and energy of construction" -- a judgment designed to coyer the whole conception and administration of the exhibition, and one which, coming from a disinterested and competent foreign observer, may be cited as an amply expressive tribute to the zeal and fidelity of those in control.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

  • As to the coyer subtleties of the score, their discovery provides fresh interest for repeated hearings, giving The Ring a Beethovenian inexhaustibility and toughness of wear.

    The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • It is essentially a small cyclopedia Of ready rules and references packed full from coyer to cover of condensed, meaty information and precepts on almost every leading subject connected with country life.

    Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

  • Let the winter mulch not only coyer the row, but reach a foot on either side.

    Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • She was quiet and gentle; but no shyer, no brighter, no coyer, no happier, than she had been for months before.

    Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • She was quiet and gentle; but no shyer, no brighter, no coyer, no happier, than she had been for months before.

    Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Primroses, cowslips, pansies, and the regular open-eyed white blossom of the wood anemone (or, to use the more elegant Hampshire name, the windflower), were set under our feet as thick as daisies in a meadow; but the pretty weed that we came to seek was coyer; and Ellen began to fear that we had mistaken the place or the season.

    Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

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