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cheerly, a. and adv.|ˈtʃɪəlɪ|
For forms see cheer.
[f. cheer n.1 + -ly1 and -ly2.]
A. adj. Characterized by cheer or cheerfulness; blithe, cheerful, lively, cheery. arch.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xviii. 33 To be foreward and cheerly in mynd. 1649Selden Laws Eng. i. lxiv. (1739) 131 The King himself also standing with a chearly countenance. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 373 Cheerly shelters raise. 1848Fraser's Mag. XXXVIII. 72 The merry ‘water-cock’..the cheerliest fisher of the streams. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. II. xvii. 233 The cheerly cries of the seamen.
B. adv.
1. In a cheerly manner; blithely, cheerily. arch.
1558Phaër æneid. i. 15 Behold the flocke of six and six that yonder cherly flyes Of Swannes. 1591Spenser Tears Muses 321 They cherelie chaunt and rymes at randon fling. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vi. 14. 1607 Dekker Hist. Sir T. Wyatt 83 How fares the King, my Lord? speaks he cheerely? 1632Milton L'Allegro 53 Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn. c1750Shenstone P'cess Eliz. Wks. 1764 I. 323 Hark to yonder milk-maid singing Chearly o'er the brimming pail. 1832Tennyson Lady of Shalott i. iv, A song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly.
b. spec. as a cry of encouragement among sailors: Heartily, with a will.
1610Shakes. Temp. i. i. 6 Heigh my hearts, cheerely, cheerely my harts: yare, yare. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. i. 20 Cheerly my Mates, the day will be ours. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Chearly, a phrase which usually implies heartily, chearfully, or quickly, as row chearly in the boats! lower away chearly! i.e. row heartily, lower speedily. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. v. At Sea, Cheerly, my hearties! yo heave ho!
2. In a way that cheers or enlivens; cheeringly.
1794Southey Wat Tyler 1, The sun would shine as cheerly. 1811W. Spencer Poems 78 Cheerly smil'd the morn. 1816Byron Siege Cor. iii, Alighting cheerly to inspire The soldier slackening in his fire. |