seelie
Britishplural noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of seelie
an earlier form of silly
Example Sentences
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The seelie man when all the Greekish Sea His fleete had hidd, in hope me sure to drowne, Me battaile gaue: where fortune, in my stede, Repulsing him his forces disaraied.
From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney
This verie morning, but--I did bestow-- It was a little 'gainst my will, I know-- A single kisse, upon the seelie Swaine, And now I wish that verie kisse againe.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
Their seelie necks to ground with weaknesse bend.
From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney
There were, as in all communities, a good and a bad section, known as the "seelie" and the "unseelie court."
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick
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