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In some senses, coily is marked as obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
coily
adv 2adj 1
Collocations
4VERB + COILY
hand, untwin
COILY + NOUN
cord, d, lip, snatcht
PREP.
from
ADV.
away
Definitions
adj
1
Having coils; coiling.
The pillars in Figure 12.24 were built similarly: I designed a helix (a coily cord shape) and then swept a large 2D circle along the path the helix describes.
adv
1
Obsolete form of coyly.
This said; his hand he coily snatcht away / From forth Antinous hand.
She coily biting the lip, and brideling her head, as if ſhe had bene ſome mans beſt Gelding, ſprucely thus replyed.
2
Misspelling of coyly.
She coily explained 'they are making a baby'.
I got around to asking coily, “What if Aunt Lacy finds out about Miss Clarissa?”
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The pillars in Figure 12.24 were built similarly: I designed a helix (a coily cord shape) and then swept a large 2D circle along the path the helix describes.
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This said; his hand he coily snatcht away / From forth Antinous hand.
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She coily biting the lip, and brideling her head, as if ſhe had bene ſome mans beſt Gelding, ſprucely thus replyed.
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How often hath the wanton wind / To gentleſt blaſts himſelf confin’d, / Whilſt playing with you too unkind / You ſhook him off and ſtill untwin’d, / And coily turn’d another way, / Diſdaining his unli
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