Definition of "nighly" [nigh•ly]

• Nearly (adverb)

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• "Suppose a Man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a Cube, and a Sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and t'other; which is the Cube, which the Sphere."
• "So there we stayed to Gloucester nighly four year."
• "So we marched with the army, and long marches it was, they winter days, nighly five hundred mile in six weeks as I've been told."