defly
English
Adverb
defly (comparative more defly, superlative most defly)
- Obsolete form of deftly.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Ægloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
- They dauncen deffly, and singen soote,
In their merimen
References
- “defly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.