Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIGHT'LY, adv. [li'tely.]

1. With little weight; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.
2. Without deep impression. The soft ideas of the cheerful note, / Lightly received, were easily forgot. – Prior.
3. Easily; readily; without difficulty; of course.
4. Without reason, or for reasons of little weight. Flatter not the rich, neither do thou wittingly or lightly appear before great personages. – Taylor.
5. Without dejection; cheerfully. Bid that welcome / Which comes to punish us, and we punish it, / Seeming to bear it lightly. – Shak.
6. Not chastely; wantonly. Swift.
7. Nimbly; with agility; not heavily or tardily. He led me lightly over the stream.
8. Gayly; airily; with levity; without heed or care.