greenly, adv.
(ˈgriːnlɪ)
[f. green a. + -ly2.]
1. With a green colour; with green vegetation; so as to look green.
| 1583 Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 113 With twisted garland and leau's, spred greenlye, she garnisht Thee place of her burial. 1816 Byron Ch. Har. iii. xlvi, Grey but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells. 1856 Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 572 The straight small bed was curtained greenly. 1864 Lowell Fireside Trav. 198 The valley widens greenly toward other mountains. 1881 C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley iv. 149 Rows of hops, with the sun glancing greenly through on the waving clusters. |
2. fig. Chiefly with reference to growing vegetation: Freshly, vigorously, youthfully.
| 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. i. iii, Two gentle swains Whose sprouting youth did now but greenly bud. 1815 Byron Parisina xx, The rest shall bloom and live All greenly fresh. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 232 Look that warily then deep-laid in steady remembrance These our words grow greenly. 1879 Mrs. Houston Wild West 249, I could not flatter myself that in the hearts of even one of those whom I had striven to aid my memory would greenly live. 1886 W. Alexander St. Augustine's Holiday 142 If he have wrinkles they are greenly hid. |
3. In an inexperienced or unskilful manner; unskilfully; with simplicity. arch.
| 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, He, greenly credulous, shall withdraw thus. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, v. ii. 149, I can⁓not look greenely: nor gaspe out my eloquence. 1602 ― Ham. iv. v. 83 We haue done but greenly In hugger-mugger to interre him. 1820 Scott Monast. xxx, I must assist you, I reckon, for you are setting very greenly about this gear. |