Definition of "hooly" [hooly]

• Slow; cautious; careful.
• Slowly; cautiously; softly; carefully; moderately. Also hoolie.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Niece and (kunject a bit now!) our own familiars, Billyhealy, Bally-hooly and Bullyhowley, surprised in an indecorous position by the Sigurd Sigerson Sphygmomanometer Society for bled-prusshers."
• "Yet spak this child, whan spreynd was hooly water,"
• "And here foloweth the noble tale of the Sancgreal that called is the hooly vessel. '"