lentlyadv.
A transcription error in N.E.D. for silently in the following quot.:
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb]
slowlyc1384
slowa1398
tortoise-like1645
lently1655
snail-like1825
loiteringly1836
dreichly1844
oozily1871
leadenly1879
snailishly1889
glacially1975
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa II. i. v. 81 He..therefore past silently the River Vulturnus.
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adv.1655- to knock a person stupid
- to knock a person'one's brains out
- to knock a person's block off
- to knock a person's brains out
- to knock a person's lights out
- to knock about
- to knock about with
- to knock all of a heap
- to knock all to sticks
- to knock around
- to knock back
- to knock daylight into
- to knock daylight through
- to knock down
- to knock down ginger
- to knock down like ninepins
- to knock for a goal
- to knock for a loop
- to knock for six
- to knock formerly also etc out of time
- to knock formerly also hit out of time
- to knock galley-west
- to knock galleywest
- to knock head
- to knock heads together