sheenly
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]sheenly (comparative more sheenly, superlative most sheenly)
- (poetic, archaic) brightly
- 1832?, William Motherwell, The Ritters Ride Home
- The bay glitters sheenly in sunlight, / No oar shivers now its clear mirror.
- 1840, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Child Asleep:
- Shapes of brightness overlean thee, / With their diadems of youth / Striking on thy ringlets sheenly […]
- 1832?, William Motherwell, The Ritters Ride Home