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A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

In a cordial manner. Dr. H. More.

d or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

In the body; in a bodily form or manner.

In a corpulent manner.

ght; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. This is a defect in the first make of same men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet.

In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.

In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

o vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1. Cor. xv. 33.

In a manner that corrupts.

In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.

In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.

rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

In a costive manner.

obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude. As being one who took no pride, And was a deal too countrified. Lloyd.

Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.