adv. Angrily. [ Obs. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Temperately. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a bitter manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Bungling; awkward. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Mean; servile. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate;
adv. Like a brother; affectionately; kindly. “I speak but brotherly of him.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. “The victim of a butcherly murder.” D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a chandler; in a petty way. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Gay; cheerful. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Cheerily. [ Archaic ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a clever manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Clout, n. ] Clumsy; awkward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Becoming a daughter; filial. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Actively; quickly; nimbly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Swim with your bodies,
And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to dinner. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The dinnerly officer. Copley. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Disastrously. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
adv. In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. [ 1913 Webster ]
Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an eager manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
adv. Toward, or in the direction of, the east. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age;
a.
You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like feathers. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. f&unr_;rlic sudden, unexpected. See Fear, n. ] Singular; wonderful; extraordinary. [ Obs. ] --
Who hearkened ever such a ferly thing. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ Prov. E. ginger brittle, tender; cf. dial. Sw. gingla, gängla, to go gently, totter, akin to E. gang. ] Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily. [ 1913 Webster ]
What is't that you took up so gingerly ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Wanting food; starved. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. With keen appetite. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. More within. [ Obs. ] Baret. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. Like a landlubber: inexperienced in seamanshap.
adv. Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. [ 1913 Webster ]
Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
He [ the dwarf ] was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a lubber; clumsy. [ 1913 Webster ]
A great lubberly boy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Clumsily; awkwardly. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. [ 1913 Webster ]
What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. With good manners. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
adv. With the skill of a master. [ 1913 Webster ]
Thou dost speak masterly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. same as meager, 2. Opposite of
a. [ From Miser. ] Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid; niggardly. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Irregular; disorderly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. mōdorlic. ] Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal;