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Pily vs Paly - What's the difference?

pily | paly |

As adjectives the difference between pily and paly

is that pily is like pile or wool while paly is (heraldry) vertically striped or paly can be (obsolete) pale; lacking colour.

pily

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like pile or wool.
  • * 1903 , Charles Henry Lane, Rabbits, Cats and Cavies
    • the thick, fine, short undercoat, or pily fur
    (Webster 1913)

    paly

    English

    Etymology 1

    Compare (etyl) . See (pale) a stake.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) vertically striped

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pale; lacking colour
  • * 1593 , , III. ii. 141:
    • Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips / With twenty thousand kisses,
    (Whittier)