c1460 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Royal 17 D.xv) (1940) l. 1234 Waterly vessel [c1405 Ellesmere Fro the fir he took vp his mateere..And in the water vessel he it caste].

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 1805 (MED) Twynkelinge & glitring as in Magnesia is, Light is cause therof, within matere of cleernys; which is superducid vpon watirly vapoure.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 117^v Many other ryuers whiche faule into it [sc. the Maragnonus] throughowte all the lowe and waterlye regions by the whiche it runneth..into the sea.

1836 United Service Jrnl. Jan. 82 A confusion of voices and other noises earthly and waterly.

1866 J. C. Van Tramp Prairie & Rocky Mountain Adventures i. 451 The river..pursued a very direct waterly course through a narrow valley.

1907 F. Sinclair Under North Star & Southern Cross 21 The explosion of the bomb quickly ended poor Leviathan's earthly, or rather waterly, career.

1993 W. Witton Green Fox ii. 31 ‘As you see, my companion..is of no earthly—or waterly—use in his condition...’ ‘Ah.’ The Frenchman gave a knowledgeable nod. ‘Le mal de mer!’

1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 62 You undine-clear and pearly, soullessly cool And waterly The pool for my limbs to fathom.

1998 J. A. McPherson Crabcakes (1999) 24 I liked the way the white, sun-melting snow would slide lazily and waterly off the skeletal branches of high-reaching trees.