adv. [f. CLOUDY + -LY2.]

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  1.  In a cloudy manner; dimly, obscurely; with darkened prospects.

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1651.  Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 35. What … is this … that Mr. T. so cloudily talks off?

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1656.  Cowley, Davideis, IV. xxii. note. When they [stones] looked dimly and cloudily.

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1792.  Burke, Corr. (1844), III. 433. Things look cloudily for the aristocrates.

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1870.  Hawthorne, Eng. Note-Bks. (1879), II. 248. This morning opened cloudily.

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  † 2.  (?) In a crowd or swarm (cf. CLOUD sb. 7).

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1731.  A. Hill, Adv. Poets, xxv. 5. Crowds of busy Cyphers Who … Cloudily bustling, fill’d a Realm alone.

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