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In a clear manner.

In a scholarly manner. [Obs.] Shak.

In a clever manner. Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart.

In a clinical manner.

odest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. Shak. In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.

In a concealed manner.

The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. [Obs.] The doors of plank were; their close exquisite. Chapman.

In a close manner.

In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.

A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney.

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.

In a coactive manner.

Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language. I feel Of what coarse metal ye are molded. Shak. To copy, in my coarse English, his beautiful expressions. Dryden.

In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

eing coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

In a coaxing manner; by coaxing.

To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner. They cocked their hats in each other's faces. Macaulay.

To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [Colloq.]