[f. BURLY + -NESS.] Burly state; fullness of figure; stoutness, bigness.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., VIII. 119. Into a lesser roomth thy burlinesse to bring.
1832. L. Hunt, Sir R. Esher (1850), 128. In the rest of his face … a kind of bloated prominence, or rather burliness.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 143. Who shall tell … the pitchy burliness of their bulging sides.
