Definition of Gurly

1. grim [adj GURLIER, GURLIEST] - See also: grim

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurly

gurgly
gurgoyle
gurgoyles
gurjan
gurjans
gurjun
gurjuns
gurled
gurlet
gurlets
gurlier
gurliest
gurling
gurls
gurly (current term)
gurmies
gurmy
gurn
gurnard
gurnards
gurned
gurner
gurners
gurnet
gurnets
gurney
gurneys
gurniad
gurning

Literary usage of Gurly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1902)
"Bagnal gurly died intestate in the lifetime of his father and of his wife, ... The appellant, Walter Bagnal gurly, was the heir-at-law of the testator ..."

2. Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the House of Lords on Appeals and by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1874)
"elder became entitled thereto, as his sole next of kin, and that the sanie constituted a portion of the personal estate of Thomas gurly the elder, ..."

3. A Treatise of the Law of Property: As Administered by the House of Lords by Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1849)
"gurly therefore had a freehold lease for lives, and a chattel lease for 999 ... If, as suggested in one report, the assignment from St. Leger to gurly was ..."

4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"Gurl, to growl; gurly, boisterous, stormy, savage, growly; from the German and Flemish grollen, the English growl, to express displeasure or anger by ..."

5. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"gurly, growly, savage. ' Dictionary of the Oldest Words in the English Language.' The lift grew dark and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. ..."

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