adv. Also 1 snellice, 4 snellich, -lik. [f. SNELL a. Cf. MDu. snellike, -lijc (Du. snellijk), MLG. snellik(en, OHG. snellîcho, MSw. sniälle-, sniellelika.] In a snell manner; quickly, smartly, severely, etc.
a. 1000. Bi Manna Wyrdrum, 82 (Gr.). Sum sceal … snellice snere wræstan.
c. 1305. Land Cokayne, 163. And euch monke him taketh on, And snellich berith forth har prei.
c. 1325. Metr. Hom. (1862), 59. His sawel … bes felaw wit the fend, That snellik sal it scham and schend.
13[?]. K. Alis., 2524 (Laud MS.). Vche bare xij. oþer xvj. kniȝth, Wel arenged snelly to fiȝth.
1790. Shirref, Poems, p. xix. At first he frown’d, and said, right snelly, It ’s gryte presumption.
c. 1790. Pickering, in Burns’ Wks. (ed. Chambers, 1857), IV. 91. The snaw drives snelly through the dale.
1836. M. Mackintosh, Cottager’s Daughter, 70. The thumbkin was maist snelly screwed.
1881. J. Ballantine, in Modern Scot. Poems, III. 30. Snelly the hail smote the skeleton trees.
