Meaning of lichtly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. lightly; gently or without great force.
   Scotland
2. In a manner that is not serious.
   Scotland

Examples

“I will mak a lang ladder, Wi' fifty steps and three, three, I will mak a lang ladder, And lichtly come doun to thee, thee, And lichtly come doun to thee.”

“Saft in his arms he caught her up, Winsome Annie Ramsay. An' swang her lichtly to the croup, Winsome Annie Ramsay.”

“Than, tae her gret surprise, he touched her hair, sae lichtly that she cud haurdly feel it, an rinnin a finger doonwart, he fund her yae lang braid an pickit it up.”

“But a wuman wha wad sae misguide the son o' her ain body, an' for naething but that as she had broucht him furth sic he was, — it "s no to be lichtly believed nor lichtly endured.”

““Dinna speak sae lichtly, Thamas," remonstrated his wife. “”

“Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o' that black business.”

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