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cloudily, adv.|ˈklaʊdɪlɪ|
[f. cloudy + -ly2.]
1. In a cloudy manner; dimly, obscurely; with darkened prospects.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 35 What..is this..that Mr. T. so cloudily talks off? 1656Cowley Davideis iv. xxii. note, When they [stones] looked dimly and cloudily. 1792Burke Corr. (1844) III. 433 Things look cloudily for the aristocrates. 1870Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 248 This morning opened cloudily.
†2. (?) In a crowd or swarm (cf. cloud n. 7).
1731A. Hill Adv. Poets xxv. 5 Crowds of busy Cyphers Who..Cloudily bustling, fill'd a Realm alone. |