adv. [ All + anerly singly, fr. ane one. ] Solely; only. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Angrily. [ Obs. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an anterior manner; before. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an articular or an articulate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Temperately. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an auricular manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Authorial. [ R. ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. By way of help. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a binocular manner. [ 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. [ OE. burlich strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence handsome, manly, stout. Cf. Bower. ]
In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [ he was ] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley. [ 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 the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne. [ 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 ]
a. Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a circular manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. privately; secretly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a clear manner. [ 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. Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. caracole. ] Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. Same as curlicue.
To cut a curlycue,
I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a shrubby clematis (Clematis ochreleuca) of eastern US having curly foliage.
adv. In a curvilinear manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Becoming a daughter; filial. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Courteously; elegantly. [ 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 a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. [ 1913 Webster ]
With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a doctor or learned man. [ Obs. ] “Doctorly prelates.” Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an eager manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ OE. erli, erliche, AS. &aemacr_;rlīce; &aemacr_;r sooner + līc like. See Ere, and Like. ] Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes;
Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]
You must wake and call me early. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
Seen in life's early morning sky. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
The forms of its earlier manhood. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]
Early English (Philol.)
Early English architecture,
adj. being somewhat early. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a.
adv. Toward, or in the direction of, the east. [ 1913 Webster ]