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Etym: [A word not fully approved, but sometimes used for the adverb ill.]

Preparation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A club; esp., a policeman's club.

A male goat. [Colloq.]

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain.

Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

A kind of stagecoach. "The Derby dilly." J. H. Frere.

To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

The ring plover. [Prov. Eng.]

In an evil manner; not well; ill. [Obs.] "Good deeds evilly bestowed." Shak.

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal. Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. Shak.

Weakly; infirmly.

In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. Sir W. Scott.

ng a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower, the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri). -- Water gillyflowe…

To broil; to grill; hence, To harass. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. "Hilly steep." Dryden.

Uncivilly. [Obs.] Shak.

An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained.