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1,000+ words match “MANNER”

DROP v. 30 definitions
To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.
DROPWISE adv.
After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops. Trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson.
DROWSILY adv.
In a drowsy manner.
DRUDGINGLY adv.
In a drudging manner; laboriously.
DRUNKENLY adv.
In a drunken manner. [R.] Shak.
DRY a. 14 definitions
ty somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. W. Irving.
DRYLY adv.
In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
DUBIOUSLY adv.
In a dubious manner.
DUCALLY adv.
In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.
DULCILOQUY n.
A soft manner of speaking.
DULLY adv.
In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. G. Lyttelton.
DULY adv.
In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
DUN v. 6 definitions
To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
DUNFISH n.
Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.
DURABLY adv.
In a lasting manner; with long continuance.
DUSKILY adv.
In a dusky manner. Byron.
DYINGLY adv.
In a dying manner; as if at the point of death. Beau. & Fl.
EAGERLY adv.
In an eager manner.
EARNESTLY adv.
In an earnest manner.
EARNESTNESS n.
r quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.
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