adv. [f. SPRINGY a. + -LY2.]
1. With an elastic or springy step.
1881. Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., III. 44. She stepped springily on to the verandah.
1884. W. D. Howells, Silas Lapham (1891), I. 60. The mare was springily jolting over the snow.
2. After the manner of a spring.
1884. Lathrop, True & other Stories, II. 229. Were you to place your hand on her shoulder, she would resist springily.
1887. D. C. Murray & Herman, One Traveller Returns, ii. 24. The mere ring of hair which fringed his head was grizzled, but it curled springily still like wire.
