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slyly, slily, adv.|ˈslaɪlɪ|
Forms: α. 3 slah-, 4 slehliche, sleȝlych; 4–5 sleȝ- (4 sleeȝ-, 5 sleȝe-), 5 sleghly, -li; 4 sleiȝli, 5 -ly; 5–6 sleighely. β. 4–5 slely (5 scle-), 6 slelie; 4 sleyli, -ly; sleili, 5 -ly, 6 -lye, Sc. slealie, -lye, 5–6 Sc. 8– sleely. γ. 4 slyh-, slihly, 4–5 sliȝli (4–5 -lich), 5 slyȝly, 6 slygh(e)-, slighly. δ. 4 slilich, 4– slily (6 slilye, 7 sliely). ε. 4 slylich, 4– slyly (5 slyely).
[f. sly a. + -ly2. Cf. ON. slœ́gliga, MSw. slögeliga.]
1.
†a. Cleverly, skilfully, dexterously; wisely. Obs.
b. Cunningly, artfully; covertly, secretly, stealthily, quietly.
αc1205Lay. 8586 He ferde ut of Doure..in to ane muchele slæde & slahliche his folc hudde. c1370Chaucer Troylus v. 83 He ful soft and sleighely gan hire seye, ‘Now hold youre day’. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3509 Þan þay be-speken how he myȝt Sleȝlych a-scape out of þe syȝt. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 107 For to slee hym slehliche slehthes ich by-þenke. c1400Destr. Troy 12690 [Þai] letyn sailes doune slide sleghli & faire. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 4 Answere he sleiȝly to thingis y-asked, that he be noȝt y-take in his wordes.
βa1300Cursor M. 9404 In paradis he did him rest, And sleili slepe apon him kest. 1375Barbour Bruce xix. 538 On the ferrer syd Toward thame slely can he ryd. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 913 The lady rauȝte A fair ymage and him by-tauȝte, And bad him sclely with him bere. c1440Gesta Rom. lxxi. 390 (Addit. MS.), Was neuer soule so slely wonne and sauyd. 1513Douglas æneid i. vi. 77 Slelie with ane knyfe, Or he was war, [he] reft Sicheus the lyfe. 1584Leg. Bp. St. Androis 909 Maister Jhone Dowglass weill can tell, How slealie he deceavit him sell. 1722Ramsay Three Bonnets iv. 5 [She] sleely, when he did appear, About his success 'gan to speer.
γc1350Will. Palerne (Roxb.) 29 He slod sliȝli a doun a slepe ful harde. 1390Gower Conf. I. 130 So slihly cam it noght aboute That thei ne ben discoevered oute. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 4507 Lo, how þe serpent of discord can glyde Ful slyȝly in. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 194 The feend hath deceyued sliȝli and wijlily men..whiche han worschipid ymagis. a1470H. Parker Dives & Pauper (W. de W. 1496) i. lxiv. 108/2 How pryuely and how slyghely they may begyle her euen crysten. 1580Sir H. Cobham in Cal. State Papers, For., Eliz. 143 [There are ways and means used] slieghly.
δ13..Cursor M. 11231 (Gött.), Bot sliliker he come and ȝede. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 41 Me may nouȝt seile by þis swolwe but slily at þe ful see. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xii. 266 Dauid þe douhty þat deuynede how vrye Mighte slilokeste be slayn. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 3 Heere in these Confines slily haue I lurkt. 1676Hubbard Happiness of People 58 Yet doth this sin slily insinuate it self into the heart of the forwardest Professors. 1728Morgan Hist. Algiers II. iv. 273 The Letter dropped under the Bank on which he sate rowing,..but a Spanish Renegado..took it up slily. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 78 They slily crouded behind the door,..ready to issue, in an instant. 1833H. Martineau Charmed Sea vii. 111 But would they not be slily kept for money? 1869Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 205 The Chorus, secretly reassured and slily hopeful.
transf.1651Davenant Gondibert iii. ii. 17 Beneath that shade Two Rivers slily steal. 1686J. Moyle Abstract Sea Chyrurg. x. 113 A Catarrh is a Rhume that has taken a habit of trickling slily down the Aspera arteria.
εc1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2045 Ariadne, So slyly & so wel I shal me gye. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 91 Þey feyneþ for to flee..þat þey mowe þe slyloker here enemyes wynne and slee. a1450Myrc 554 Thenne moste þou slyly Aske of hem [etc.]. 1474Caxton Chesse iv. ii. (1883) 168 Hit is necessarye that he goo temperatly and slyly. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 190 Death dayly stealeth slyly on thee. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, i. i. 3 While we pursu'd the Horsmen of y⊇ North, He slyly stole away. 1624Gataker Transubst. 185 Which he slyly passeth by, and maketh not a word of. 1738J. Fisher Value of Divine Truth (1803) 10 These set themselves in opposition to all Confessions, whether more openly or more slyly. 1812Crabbe Tales xiii. 297 So we can slyly our amusements take. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 87 A boy is slyly appropriating the money which the apostle has thrown down. 1878Masque of Poets 32 Fate follows faster And snares us slyly from behind.
2. In a playfully mischievous or malicious manner; with a touch of malice or ridicule; roguishly, waggishly.
1837Dickens Pickw. xxxi, The clerk winked slily at Mr. Pickwick. 1873M. Collins Sq. Silchester's Whim I. iii. 42 ‘It might tempt some people’, said Mrs. Silchester slyly.
†3. Used for slightly adv. 4. (Perh. an error.)
1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 103 Why the Lauin regions, and stock, he so slilye reputeth? Ibid. 104 You buyld a cittye, youre owne state slilye regarding. |