Meanings
adjectiveoyly (comparative more oyly, superlative most oyly)
comparative more oyly · superlative most oyly
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of oily.
...there should be plac'd many glands, to separate an oyly matter, wherewith to lubricate the joints and tendons in action.
1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 141 more example
[…] for I want that glib and oyly Art, To ſpeake and purpoſe not, ſince what I well entend Ile do’t before I ſpeake, […]
c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]
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