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snelly, adv.|ˈsnɛlɪ|
Also 1 snellice, 4 snellich, -lik.
[f. snell a. Cf. MDu. snellike, -lijc (Du. snellijk), MLG. snellik(en, OHG. snellîcho, MSw. sniälle-, sniellelika.]
In a snell manner; quickly, smartly, severely, etc.
a1000Bi Manna Wyrdum 82 (Gr.), Sum sceal..snellice snere wræstan. c1305Land Cokayne 163 And euch monke him taketh on, And snellich berith forth har prei. c1325Metr. Hom. (1862) 59 His sawel..bes felaw wit the fend, That snellik sal it scham and schend. 13..K. Alis. 2524 (Laud. MS.), Vche bare xij. oþer xvj. kniȝth, Wel arenged snelly to fiȝth.
1790Shirref Poems p. xix, At first he frown'd, and said, right snelly, It's gryte presumption. c1790Pickering in Burns' Wks. (ed. Chambers, 1857) IV. 91 The snaw drives snelly through the dale. 1836M. Mackintosh Cottager's Daughter 70 The thumbkin was maist snelly screwed. 1881J. Ballantine in Modern Scot. Poems III. 30 Snelly the hail smote the skeleton trees. |