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Definition of Mistily
1. Adverb. In a misty manner. "The summits of the mountains were mistily purple"
2. Adverb. In a vague way. "He explained it somewhat mistily"
Definition of Mistily
1. adv. With mist; darkly; obscurely.
Definition of Mistily
1. Adverb. In a misty manner. ¹
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Definition of Mistily
1. in a misty manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistily
Literary usage of Mistily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"East. FEST, (l) To put out to grass. North. (2) A fastening. Line. Connected with
the old terni/es/, fastened. So mistily he ..."
2. The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship edited by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"... Or, by the body of Isis, 111 snap his neck In twain t Leave me to gaze at the
landscape mistily stretching away, * Where the afternoon's opaline tremor* ..."
3. Rochester and Charles Dickens by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1903)
"The house of Darnley is likely ever to be associated with Boz, though mistily.
How fondly touching is all this, and how it corresponds with the old ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"[< ME. mistily; < misty1 + -'#•] In a misty manner ; dimly; obscurely. ...
speken so mistily In this craft that men can not come therby. ..."
5. The Best British Short Stories of edited by John Cournos, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"He walked along, thinking mistily and hotly. Supposing he had a baby who ...
He thought all this mistily and hotly. He had come to the end of the road; ..."
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