sheenly

English

Etymology

sheen +‎ -ly

Adverb

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 […]

Anagrams

Hensley, henleys

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