a. [ OE. burlich strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence handsome, manly, stout. Cf. Bower. ] 1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. “Burly sacks.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]
In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [ he was ] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Coarse and rough; boisterous. [ 1913 Webster ]
It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]
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