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Featly   Listen
adverb
Featly  adv.  Neatly; dexterously; nimbly. (Archaic) "Foot featly here and there."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Featly" Quotes from Famous Books



... each other by the wrist. And among them sings one, not mean nor puny, but tall to look upon and enviable in mien, Artemis who delights in arrows, sister of Apollo. Among them sport Ares and the keen-eyed Slayer of Argus, while Apollo plays his lyre stepping high and featly and a radiance shines around him, the gleaming of his feet and close-woven vest. And they, even gold-tressed Leto and wise Zeus, rejoice in their great hearts as they watch their dear son ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

... evening they saw the white cliffs and the brown rocks of Ireland, and Sir Tristram took his harp and played thereon, for he had learned to harp most featly in France, where he had lived seven years, to learn all manner of courtly and noble pastimes. Soon the shipmen cast anchor in a wide sheltered cove beneath a castle which stood on a high rock beside a ...
— King Arthur's Knights - The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls • Henry Gilbert

... unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist,[388-99] Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Hark, hark! { Burden dispersedly. The watch-dogs bark: { Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I hear; { Bow-wow. The strain of strutting ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester



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