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Silvery vs Silverly - What's the difference?

silvery | silverly |

As an adjective silvery

is resembling silver in color, shiny white.

As an adverb silverly is

(poetic) with a silver appearance or sound.

silvery

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • All the enameled race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • Sprinkled or covered with silver.
  • Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

    • Derived terms

    * (silvery acacia) * (silvery flying fox) () * (silvery gade) * silvery gibbon * (silvery gull) * (l) * (silvery hair-grass) * (silvery hair-tail) * (silvery honeysuckle) () * (silvery oak) * (silvery pout) () * (silvery salmon) * (silvery shrew mole) * silvery-tongued

    silverly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (poetic) With a silver appearance or sound.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Keats, title=Endymion, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="This river does not see the naked sky, Till it begins to progress silverly Around the western border of the wood, Whence, from a certain spot, its winding flood Seems at the distance like a crescent moon: And in that nook, the very pride of June, Had I been used to pass my weary eves; The rather for the sun unwilling leaves So dear a picture of his sovereign power, And I could witness his most kingly hour, When he doth lighten up the golden reins, And paces leisurely down amber plains His snorting four. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1888, author=Archibald Lampman, title=Among the Millet and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And when night comes, his spirits with chill feet, Winged with white mirth and noiseless mockery, Across men's pallid windows peer and fleet, And smiling silverly Draw with mute fingers on the frosted glass Quaint fairy shapes of iced witcheries, Pale flowers and glinting ferns and frigid trees And meads of mystic grass, Graven in many an austere phantasy. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Henry Van Dyke, title=Days Off, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There was a tiny wren singing among the Balm-o'-Gilead trees on the opposite shore, with a voice that rose silverly above the noise of the rapids. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Amy Lowell, title=Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The sun is well In the core of a sky Domed silverly . }}