Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SUB'TLY
SUB'TLESUB-TON'IC, or SUB-SEM'I-TONE
SUB'TLY, adv.
- Slily; artfully; cunningly. Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise. – Milton.
- Nicely; delicately. In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true. – Pope.
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