adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a barren manner; without offspring, produce or result; meagerly, scantily.
1552. Huloet, Barrenlye, steriliter.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 50. Though your pasture looke barreinly.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., xi. Let those whom nature hath not made for store … barrenly perish.
1625. Ussher, Answ. Jesuit, 472. Yet haue they onely barrenly adorned this temporall life.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men, 36. Barrenly increase Mere itch of knowledge.
