Meaning

(Scotland) lightly; gently or without great force..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Scotland) lightly; gently or without great force.
2. (Scotland) In a manner that is not serious.
3. (Scotland) To slight; to treat contemptuously or without seriousness.

Example Sentences

I will mak a lang ladder, Wi' fifty steps and three, three, I will mak a lang ladder, And lichtly come doun to thee, thee, And lichtly come doun to thee.

Saft in his arms he caught her up, Winsome Annie Ramsay. An' swang her lichtly to the croup, Winsome Annie Ramsay.

Than, tae her gret surprise, he touched her hair, sae lichtly that she cud haurdly feel it, an rinnin a finger doonwart, he fund her yae lang braid an pickit it up.

But a wuman wha wad sae misguide the son o' her ain body, an' for naething but that as she had broucht him furth sic he was, — it "s no to be lichtly believed nor lichtly endured.

“Dinna speak sae lichtly, Thamas," remonstrated his wife. “

Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o' that black business.

nevertheles the sadis Johnne of Haldane and James, and thar complices, now again has cummyn to the samyn, and masterfully has tain and occupiis thaim, and has of new castin furth thar gudis, corne and catall, but ony resoune, as is allegit, in great lichtlying, contempt, and dissobeying of our autorite, lettres, mandmentis, and charges.

This is nae change-hoose, John Munro, And ye needna come nae mair: Ye crookit yer mou', and lichtlied me, Last Wednesday, at the fair."

Word Forms

• more lichtly
• most lichtly
• lichtlies
• lichtlying
• lichtlied

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