Sc. & north. dial. [f. BAIRN + -LY1.]
1. Childish.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, I. (1822), 100. Thair insolent and barnelie contencioun.
1663. Blair, Autobiog., i. 1. I used my bairnly endeavour.
1837. R. Nicoll, Poems (1843), 80. I hae left them now for ever, But, to greet would bairnly be.
2. Child-like, in childhood.
1603. Philotus, xc. The las bot bairnlie is and ȝoung. Ibid. A bairnelie lasse lyke me, Mair meit his oy nor wyfe to be.
