A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1610
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(Smilingly,) Smylingly, adv. [e.m.E. smylyngly (c1500); Smiling ppl. adj.] In a smiling, amused, etc. manner. —c1610 Melville Mem. 120.
The quen … culd not refrain from putting hir hand in his nek to kittle him smylingly
