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ˈbluely, adv.
[f. blue a. + -ly2.]
1. With a blue colour or tinge.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. App. xciv, Then blewly pale, then duller still, till perfect dead. 1818Keats Endym. i. 605 Her hovering feet, More bluely vein'd..Than those of sea-born Venus. 1844Hood Haunted Ho. lxiii, The taper burning bluely. 1852D. Moir Graves of Dead i.
†2. Badly, with bad success; only in phrase to come off bluely. Obs.
c16502nd Narrat. late Parl. in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 425 Yet [he]..came off bluely in the end. 1653Urquhart Rabelais iv. xxxv, He still came off but bluely by reason of the Care and Vigilance of the Chitterlings. 1710T. Ward Eng. Ref. i. 67 (D.) We shall come off but blewly here. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, Bluely [badly], male. He came off but bluely, malè res successit. |