What is large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number. Goodly and great he sails behind his link. Dryden called?
goodly — Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number. Goodly and great he sails behind his link. Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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