Usually means: Obsolete term for "happy" or "fortunate."
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  1. sely: Wordnik
  2. sely: Wiktionary
  3. SELY: Dictionary.com
  4. Sely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. sely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Sely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. sely: Free Dictionary
  8. Sely: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. SELY: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sely)

adjective:  Obsolete form of silly (especially in its older senses like "innocent", "pitiable, poor", "trifling, insignificant", but also "foolish"). [Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.]

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