whitely

adj

Etymology: From white + -ly.

1. pale-facedly.

   “15th c., Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid, lines 213-214, The secund steid to name hecht Ethios, Quhitlie and paill […]”

   “[…] among three to loue the worst of all, / A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow, / With two pitch balles stucke in her face for eyes.”

adv

Etymology: From white + -ly.

1. In a white manner.

   “[…] she opened a door which disclosed a staircase so whitely scrubbed that the grain of the wood was wellnigh sodden away by such cleansing.”

   “it is the autumn of a year: When through the thin air stooped with fear, across the harvest whitely peer empty of surprise death’s faultless eyes”

name

1. A surname.