adv. [f. UNCANNY a.]

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  1.  dial. (See quot.)

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1825.  Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Uncannily, unthinkingly, thoughtlessly.

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  2.  In an uncomfortably strange manner; weirdly.

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1873.  Murdoch, Doric Lyre, 98. Slates an’ tiles an’ chimla cans Uncannily were fa’in’.

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1888.  R. Buchanan, Heir of Linne, xxv. He talks so uncannily.

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1895.  Atlantic Monthly, Aug., 225. A gigantic eye which uncannily turns around.

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