Briskly

adv. [f. BRISK a. + -LY².] With brisk motion or action; sharply, smartly, quickly, energetically, vigorously, actively.

1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. i. (1675), 168. My Drowsiness … made me briskly enough bid him … let me alone.

1676.  Lister, in Ray’s Corr. (1848), 124. [Lycopodium] will fire briskly in a flame.

1702.  Lond. Gaz., No. 3809/6. The Cannon … kept firing very briskly.

1719.  W. Wood, Surv. Trade, 200. Manufactures proceeded briskly.

1812.  Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 125. A piece of dry silk … briskly rubbed against a warm plate of polished flint glass.

1839.  trans. Lamartine’s Trav. East, 161/1. He sprang briskly to his feet.

1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., IX. 1488. You urge him all the brisklier to repent.

  † b.  Smartly, in reference to dress. Obs.

1592.  Greene, Upst. Courtier, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), II. 228. A … fellow … briskly apparelled, in a blacke taffata doublet, and a spruce leather jerkin with christall buttons.