FRIENDLY

a. adv.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

2.
a.

Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay.

3.
a.

Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.

4.
a.

Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale. On the first friendly bank he throws him down. Addison.

5.
adv.

In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends. [Obs.] Shak. In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly met. Beau. & Fl.

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