Flexible, bending, pliant: “when the splitting wind makes f. the knees of knotted oaks,” Troil. I, 3, 50. Hence == tractable, soft: H6C I, 4, 141.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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