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ANELY, adv., adj..  Also ainlie, anerlie. Only, solely, exclusively.  Cf. ALLENARLIE.

1.  adv.Sc. 1844 G. Outram Invit. to Dinner in Lyrics Legal, etc. (1874) 14:
But anerlie wi' our ain reamin yill.m.Sc. 1988 William Neill Making Tracks 55:
Are we kent as trees ainlie when the mind's tuim
an the hairns sined oot frae the warld's wechtie daurg?
No sib tae the ettlin warld whaur they bide ...
the warld o transport, television an tea-time,Sc. 1991 R. Crombie Saunders in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 28:
Warlds frae the lyft hae fled, an sterns gane black
Sen yesternicht, bot anely God can read
In the derkened universe o my tuim hert
What galaxies He ended whan you deed.m.Sc. 1991 Tom Scott in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 43:
Tho they ryve me o waponrie,
wi ma nieves anerlie Lnk. 1991 Duncan Glen Selected Poems 15:
He tells me strokin stanes
is infintile. I should growe up
go efter girls
and then anerlie throw
- a hunter oot for the kill. Sc. 1994 Scotland on Sunday 21 Aug :
Forbye that its doon tae forrit-leukin papers sic as SoS tae dae thair bit as weel be prentin onie articles or letters whilk are presentit in Scots.
Ainlie then wull fowk get yaised tae the scrievit form o thair ain leid wi a standart spelling o the wirds that they're weel yaised tae hearin.Dundee 1996 Matthew Fitt Pure Radge 8:
the fuhl-back's skinned
the defence is left haunless
juist the keeper
ainlie the keeperAbd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web iv:
Naebody, as far's I ken, telt Beethoven the pianie sud anely be eesed fur the twa midmaist octaves.Edb. 2003:
Ah wis ainlie playing wi the bairn an she sterted greetin.

2. adj.  Dundee 1991 W. N. Herbert in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 177:
Dundee is yir pit and anerly toon;
pass owre Piers, Piers pass owre:
thi psychopomp huz huddiz oor. Fif. 1998 Tom Hubbard Isolde's Luve-Daith 5:
We set ti the darg wi the anerlie gear we brocht,
Wi Tristan's ballants an Isolde's balsam;
You sang ti heeze the dauntit fae defeat,