adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a conical form or manner; like a cone.

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1661.  Boyle, Spring of Air (J.). A watering, pot, shaped conically, or like a sugar loaf. Ibid. (a. 1691), Wks. (1772), III. 641 (R.). An almost conically shaped weight of lead.

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1786.  Cavallo, in Phil. Trans., LXXVII. 9. A piece of … paper rolled up conically, and having at its apex an aperture.

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1866.  Tate, Brit. Mollusks, iii. 54. The shell … is conically oval.

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1872.  Proctor, Ess. Astron., xiii. 193. A telescope … having a motion carrying the tube conically round a mean position.

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