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Webster 1913 Edition
Felly
Fel′ly
,adv.
In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.
Spenser.
Fel′ly
,Noun.
pl.
Fellies
. [OE.
feli
, felwe
, felow
, AS. felg
, felge
; akin to D. velg
, G. felge
, OHG. felga
felly (also, a harrow, but prob. a different word), Dan. felge
.] The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
[Written also
felloe
.] Break all the spokes and
fellies
from her wheel. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Felly
FEL'LY
,adv.
FEL'LY
,Noun.
Felo de se, in law, one who commits felony by suicide, or deliberately destroys his own life.
Definition 2024
felly
felly
English
Alternative forms
- felloe
- fellick, felk (dialectal)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛli/
- Hyphenation: fel‧ly
Noun
felly (plural fellies)
- The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
- 1602, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:
- all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele [...].
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.
- 1602, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
From Middle English felly, felli, fellich, equivalent to fell + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛlli/, /ˈfɛli/
Adverb
felly (comparative more felly, superlative most felly)
- (now rare) Fiercely, harshly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi: