a. Now dial. Forms: 6–7 tuly, 7 tuely, 8 tooly, 7, 9– tewly. [Derivation uncertain: perh. from TEW sb.1 or v.1; but the early spellings tu-, too- do not favor this.] Weak, sickly, delicate; poorly, unwell.

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1538.  Bale, Temptacyon (1870), 14. Ye are but tuly, ye are no stronge persone doughtlesse.

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1619.  J. Dyke, Caveat (1620), 32. Timothy was surely weake, and but a sickely, tuely man.

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1691.  Ray, S. & E. C. Words, Tewly or tuly, tender, sick: tuly stomached, weak stomached.

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1787.  Grose, Provinc. Gloss., Tooly, tender, sickly. A tooly man or woman. Hampsh.

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1898.  Longm. Mag., Nov., 50. His head’s wise enough, if his body be tewly.

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