spiny (spin i)

[ prickly.-2. Figuratively, thorny; perplexed; difficult; troublesome. The spiny desarts of scholastick philosophy. War burton , On Prophecy, p. 61. ( Latham .) 31. Thin; slim; slender. As in well grown woods, on trees, cold spiny gra hoppers Chapman, Iliad, iii. 161. Sit chirping Faith, thou art such a spiny bald-rib, all the mistre es in the town will never get thee up. Middle ton, Mayor of Queen borough, iii. 3.