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In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily. Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.

In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly. Archly the maiden smiled. Longfellow.

An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

A pack or set of playing cards. The king was slyly fingered from the deck. Shak.

To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, elud…

To pry; to peep slyly. Shak. Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.

To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]

To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry. eep through the blanket of the dark. Shak. From her cabined loophole peep. Milton. Peep sight, an adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech.

The act or method of making combinations for personal advantage secretly or slyly; -- in this sense, usually written as one word. [U.S.]

See Slyly. South.

Slyly. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.

To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.

In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly. Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise. Milton.

To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. "Now twig him; now mind him." Foote. As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal. Hawthorne.