adv.
Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest,
And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
Touched lightly. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
So mikle was that barge, it might not lightly sail. R. of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster ]
Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
The soft ideas of the cheerful note,
Lightly received, were easily forgot. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
At the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun . . . and afterward did more grievously afflict her. Is. ix. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
That lightly come, shall lightly go. Old Proverb. [ 1913 Webster ]
They come lightly by the malt, and need not spare it. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Flatter not the rich, neither do thou willingly or lightly appear before great personages. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The great thieves of a state are lightly the officers of the crown. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. Book of Common Prayer [ Eng. Ed. ]. [ 1913 Webster ]