▪ I. † heily, a. Sc. Obs.
Also helie, -y, hiely.
[prob. identical with OE. héal{iacu}c: see highly a.]
Haughty, proud.
| [a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 294 His engel..Spræc healic word dollice wið drihten sinne.] 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxvi. 25 Heilie harlottis on hawtane wyiss Come in with mony sindrie gyiss. 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. iii. xxix, Roboam quhilk throw his helie pride, Tint all his leigis hartis. 1513 ― æneis ix. x. 13 Rycht proud and hely [1553 hiely] in his breist and hart. 1552 Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 63 Thai..that ar in thair wordis prydful, helie, vaine glorious. |
▪ II. heily
obs. form of highly.