Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OR'DER-LY, a.

1. Methodical; regular. Hooker.
2. Observant of order or method. Chapman.
3. Well regulated; performed in good order; not tumultuous; as, an orderly march. Clarendon.
4. According to established method. Hooker.
5. Not unruly; not inclined to break from inclosures; peaceable. We say, cattle are orderly. Orderly book, in military affairs, a book for every company, in which the sergeants write general and regimental orders. Cyc. Orderly sergeant, a military officer who attends on a superior officer.