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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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12 words match “GAYLY”

GAYLY adv. 2 definitions
Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.
BONNILY adv.
Gayly; handsomely.
BOURGEON v.
To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch. Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott.
BRAVELY adv.
Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4.
CAREER v.
To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.
CURL v.
und her slender waist he curled. Dryden. Curling smokes from village tops are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358
GENIALLY adv.
Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
JOVIALLY adv.
In a jovial manner; merrily; gayly. B. Jonson.
LIGHTLY adv.
Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily. Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.].
PLAY v.
To move gayly; to wanton; to disport. Even as the waving sedges play with wind. Shak. The setting sun Plays on their shining arms and burnished helmets. Addison. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. Pope.
WANTONLY adv.
In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.
WILDING a.
esticated, or cultivated; wild. [Poetic] "Wilding flowers." Tennyson. The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by. Bryant.