adv. [f. BLUE a. + -LY2.]

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  1.  With a blue color or tinge.

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1647.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. App. xciv. Then blewly pale, then duller still, till perfect dead.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., I. 605. Her hovering feet, More bluely vein’d … Than those of sea-born Venus.

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1844.  Hood, Haunted Ho., lxiii. The taper burning bluely.

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1852.  D. Moir, Graves of Dead, i.

        As erst of yore, when the skies of childhood
  Gleam’d bluely o’er us without a stain.

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  † 2.  Badly, with bad success; only in phrase To come off bluely. Obs.

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c. 1650.  2nd Narrat. late Parl., in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793), 425. Yet [he] … came off bluely in the end.

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1653.  Urquhart, Rabelais, IV. xxxv. He still came off but bluely by reason of the Care and Vigilance of the Chitterlings.

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1710.  T. Ward, Eng. Ref., I. 67 (D.). We shall come off but blewly here.

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1783.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I. Bluely [badly], male. ‘He came off but bluely, malè res successit.

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