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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1621
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Haly, Hailly, adv. Also: hally, hallie, haillie, heallie. [Northern ME. halli, hali(k, haali (a 1300), midl. and southern hoolly, hol(l)y, hol(l)iche.] = Halely adv. (Freq. in Barbour.)(a) 1375 Barb. i. 16.
That it lest ay furth in memory, … Na ger it haly be forȝet 1375 Ib. xvii. 473.
Thai folk … Vithdrew thame haly fra the wall c1420 Wynt. iv. 2501.
He set hym haly for to wyt … All kynrykis c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii. 1536.
His wncle … At Calys than had haly in kepyng 1513 Doug. xii. v. 50.
Thai … Ar alterit haly in ane other avys a1500 Id. King Hart 208.
Thai maid thame … Haly of thair lyvis half agast a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS xxx. 106.
Thocht the warld be haly set on yll(b) c1420 Wynt. ii. 711.
That yle … thai mycht … Wyn it hally to thare wylles 1461 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 362.
To be haldyn … frely, fullyly, hally, honorabilly … & in pece 1615 Melrose P. 210.
In directioun … to suspend him hallie for certane space fra all use of his calling(c) a1500 Golagros and Gawane 1299.
All his hathillis in that heir, hailly on hight 1573 Satirical Poems xli. 15.
He did him haillie indeuoir Thy richteous actioun to mantene 1596 Dalr. I 306/11.
Quhairfor he gaue ouer all, … that … haillie he mycht studie til heuinlie thingis 1607 Dundonald Par. Rec. 144.
Ionat Wood … denyit the same haillie 1621 Perth Kirk S. 298.
The brig of Tay was hailly dung down
b. Also all haly, hailly: cf. Alhalely adv. and Halely adv.1375 Barb. xx. 572 (see Alhalely adv.).
All haly ?1549 Monro W. Isles (1884) 64.
Her fleiche of fedderis falleth of her all hailly
