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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,160 words match “MANNER”

BUSINESSLIKE a.

In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. Macaulay. [Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. Ford.

Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. Tatler. -- Bux"om*ly, adv.…

In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.

CABALISTICALLY adv.

In a cabalistic manner.

Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. Simmonds.

To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. Johnson.

In a calm manner. The gentle stream which calmly flows. Denham.

A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner. Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. W. Irving.

er it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. Blackstone.

In a candid manner.

CANNIBALLY adv.

In the manner of cannibal. "An he had been cannibally given." Shak.

In a canny manner. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]

composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.

CAPACIOUSLY adv.

In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively.

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.

In a capital manner; excellently. [Colloq.]

CAPITULARLY adv.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

CAPTIOUSLY adv.

In a captious manner.

CAPTIOUSNESS n.

Captious disposition or manner.