† ˈheadlings, adv. Obs.
Also 4–6 -es, -is.
[f. prec. with adverbial genitive -es: see -lings.]
1. = headling 1.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 7485 [He] hurlit hym doun hedlynges. 1535 Coverdale 2 Kings ix. 33 Cast her downe headlinges. 1550 ― Spir. Perle vi. (1588) 66 In a slippery and sliding place he might fall headlings ouer & ouer. |
2. = headling 2.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 150 Þei gon hedlingis to helle. 1558 Bp. Watson Sev. Sacram. xx. 127 Whether so euer the fleshe and the deuyll leadeth hym, thyther he runneth headlynges. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 118 Mony walde be drawne heidlings into the deip swallie of al abhominable vice. |