Definition of "Lily"

"Poor little thing! She is very wee and frail, isn't she? Only two months old. We came away from the north, as soon as I was able to travel. She is called Lily."I remembered Horace having once told me that his mother's name had been Lilias.

1866 August 11, Frances Eleanor Trollope, “The Tale of Aunt Margaret's Trouble”, in All the Year Round, page 100

"Lily is such a romantic name. It sounds to me like soft music; it's the sort of name to make one dream of fanciful things."Lily smiled. "It's my grandmother's name. Coincidence, maybe, but she grew the most beautiful lilies."

2001, Catherine Coulter, Hemlock Bay, Jove, published 2002, page 57