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Sheely vs Sheenly - What's the difference?

sheely | sheenly |

As a noun sheely

is a shilfa, or chaffinch.

As an adverb sheenly is

(poetic|archaic) brightly.

sheely

English

Noun

(sheelies)
  • A shilfa, or chaffinch.
    • (Webster 1913)

    sheenly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (poetic, archaic) brightly
  • * William Motherwell
    • The bay glitters sheenly in sunlight, / No oar shivers now its clear mirror.
  • * (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • Shapes of brightness overlean thee, / With their diadems of youth / Striking on thy ringlets sheenly