thready

adj

Etymology: From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.

1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.

   “The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.”

2. weak.

   “A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.”