Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1. 
 in the way indicated; 
- Example: "hold the brush so"- Example: "set up the pieces thus" (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant); 
[syn: thus, thusly, so]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
thusly
    adv 1: in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set up the
           pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant) [syn:
           thus, thusly, so]