COSILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cosily mean? 

• COSILY (adverb)
  The adverb COSILY has 1 sense:

1. in a cozy manner

  Familiarity information: COSILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COSILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a cozy manner

Synonyms:

cosily; cozily

Context example:

nestled cozily by the fire

 Context examples 

This brought them to the fireside, where the easy-chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea things stood ready to the sitter’s elbow, the very sugar in the cup.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We got into the chaise again soon after dark, and drove cosily back, looking up at the stars, and talking about them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was a black barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off, high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of it for a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the way of a habitation that was visible to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)