"wistly" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly an alternative form of whistly, or whishtly (“quietly”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wistly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wistly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wistly (comparative more wistly, superlative most wistly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Peter Marshall, Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story, Oxford Univ. Press",
          "text": "… which makes him eye this gentlewoman a little more wistly …",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In an intent manner, with close attention; intently; attentively."
      ],
      "id": "en-wistly-en-adv-ckIp62w1",
      "links": [
        [
          "intent",
          "intent"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "intently",
          "intently"
        ],
        [
          "attentively",
          "attentively"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) In an intent manner, with close attention; intently; attentively."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wistly"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly an alternative form of whistly, or whishtly (“quietly”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wistly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wistly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wistly (comparative more wistly, superlative most wistly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Peter Marshall, Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story, Oxford Univ. Press",
          "text": "… which makes him eye this gentlewoman a little more wistly …",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In an intent manner, with close attention; intently; attentively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intent",
          "intent"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "intently",
          "intently"
        ],
        [
          "attentively",
          "attentively"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) In an intent manner, with close attention; intently; attentively."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wistly"
}