Definition of "nebuly" [neb•u•ly]

• Edged in a deeply wavy line, intended to represent clouds. (adjective)

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• "Joliffe was never tired of explaining that this last had an emerald -- "A very large emerald, my dear, surrounded by diamonds, green and white being the colours of his lordship's shield, what they call the nebuly coat, you know.""
• "SHIELD: Per fess nebuly abased azure and argent, in chief a thunderbolt or inflamed proper."
• "Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper)."