adv. Obs. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a filching manner; stealthily, surreptitiously.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut., clviii. 978. They will not go filchingly to cut downe a patche of medowe.
1598. Florio, Aruba, by stealth, filchingly.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xviii. 149. The sweet Fruits of amorous Dalliance, which Venus liketh best, when reap’d in secret, and cull’d by fervent Lovers filchingly.
