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In a gentle manner. My mistress gently chides the fault I made. Dryden.

In an astringent manner.

In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincigly; conclusively. Locke.

In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity. Ye diligently keep commandments of the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 17.

In an effulgent manner.

Dazzlingly; glitteringly.

In an indigent manner.

In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.

In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.

In a negligent manner.

In a pungent manner; sharply.

In an urgent manner.

To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. iii. 15.

r, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n.

To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline. Apply thine heart unto instruction. Prov. xxiii. 12.

circling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about. A lambent flame arose, which gently spread Around his brows. Dryden.

To slope gently backward.

first one way and then another; -- said of a stag. -- To beat up for recruits, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise.