a. [f. JEWEL sb. + -Y.]

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  1.  Abounding in, adorned with, or wearing jewels. Also fig.

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1765.  John Brown, Chr. Jrnl. (1814), 137. The splendid wealth of the jewelly tribe.

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1862.  M. B. Edwards, John & I, xxxix. (1876), 290. Glimpses … of jewelly orchards and vineyards.

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1881.  G. Macdonald, Mary Marston, II. ix. 157. Jewelly Tom was idling away time.

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  2.  Resembling a jewel, jewel-like; having the brilliancy of a jewel. Also fig.

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1822–56.  De Quincey, Confess. (1862), 26. This incident … I look back upon … as a jewelly parenthesis of pathetic happiness.

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1880.  M. B. Edwards, Forestalled, I. I. vi. 90. The little town was garlanded with fiery cressets and stars of jewelly light and lustre.

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1885.  C. Monkhouse, in Mag. of Art, Sept., 471/1. Walls … lit with jewelly glass.

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