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▪ I. smally, a.|ˈsmɔːlɪ|
[f. small a. + -y.]
†1. Of liquor: Weak, small, thin. Obs.—1
1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. 88 b, They make a drinke called Cyder, and a smaly drinke beside with water.
2. Of persons or animals: Puny, little; smallish. Sc. and north. dial.
1808in Jamieson. 1820Glenfergus II. 267 On the swaird before the mansion, two smally dry haired ponies were feeding. 1855[Robinson] Whitby Gloss. s.v., A poor smally creature. 1866Cornh. Mag. Mar. 359 But Jane was our only daughter,..a wee, smally bit thing.
▪ II. ˈsmally, adv. Now rare
Forms: 4 smalliche, 5–7 smally, 6 smallye, -ie, smaly.
[f. small a. + -ly2. In very common use c 1525–1650.]
1. In or into small or minute pieces, fragments, etc.; finely, minutely.
1340Ayenb. 111 Þet me ssel recordi zueteliche and smalliche be little stechches alle þe guodnesses of oure lhorde. c1475Cath. Angl. 346/1 Smally, minutim. 1578Lyte Dodoens 301 His leaves are not so smally cut. 1598Florio, Piouelicare, to drizle, to mizle, or raine smallie. 1610Markham Masterp. ii. lii. 299 Water wherein..the hearb of arsmanarck hath bin wel sod in, and smally chopt. 1662Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. To Rdr., Gold and Silver, how smally soever they may be divided.
2. By a small number; sparsely, scantily.
a1513Fabyan Chron. v. (1811) 111 This swerdman..fand y⊇ kyng smally accompanyed. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI (1809) 196 Besieged the citie of Arques,..whiche was smally defended and sone gotten. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies i. ix. 32 Although it bee in a climate more commodious.., yet is it smally peopled and inhabited.
3. a. In only a slight or small degree; to a small or limited extent; not much, very little. Freq. preceded by but.
(a)1523Ld. Berners Froissart I. ccxxxviii. 343 This courtesy..dyde the prince to the kynge, the whiche after was but smally rewarded. 1553Brende Q. Curtius iii. 39 The hurt of his shoulder, whereof the skin was but smally perished. 1622M. Fotherby Atheom. i. ii. 11 Which you doe but smally credite. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xxv. 42 Seneca quitted the Audience with this but smally satisfactory resolution.
(b)1532in J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. (1868) I. 221 We think this answer..will smally please you. 1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly Q iij b, In case ye smally beleve myne, marke, I praie you, his owne woords. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 541 It is needlesse, or at least smally to the purpose. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 109, I cannot prove..that a man smally beneficed must of necessity be dissolute.
b. With verbs of considering, regarding, etc.
Very common from c 1550 to c 1630.
1532in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. 213 All such acts made for reformation..be smally regarded. 1562Mountgomery in Archæologia XLVII. 220 Ower natiue Inglishe sowldior,..whome wee smallie consider. 1609R. Barnerd Faithf. Sheph. 16 They smally account of our translations. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I) 303 Smally valuing either Gold, or Pearles as I doe.
c. not smally, greatly, very much.
1562Legh Armory (1597) A iv b, Rome eke was not smally inriched by her Orator. 1578J. Jones Preserv. Body & Soul i. xxx. 60 Not a little auayleable to his..immortall glory, not smally beneficial to y⊇ Romane Empire. 1610R. Tofte Honour's Acad. 2 Not smally fortunate did he thinke himselfe.
4. In small form or compass; slenderly.
1613Dekker Strange Horse-Race Wks. (Grosart) III. 336 As that nut-shell held all Homers Iliads smally written in a peece of Vellum. 1630Tom Thumbe in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 179 His shirt..Both light and soft for those his limbes that were so smally bred. 1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays xxx. 128 Abinger moved smally in between them.
5. Of a sound: with low volume.
1958T. H. White Once & Future King ii. ii. 224 All these noises came up to the two on the tower smally, as though they were listening through the wrong end of a megaphone. 1964F. O'Rourke Mule for Marquesa 55 Hoover said, ‘Good luck,’ and his words died smally in the thud of seats hitting saddles. |