Word Meanings - DEFTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly. "Deftly dancing." Drayton. Thyself and office deftly show. Shak.

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• DANCER
  One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
• DANCY
  See DANCETTé
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• DEFTLY
  Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly. "Deftly dancing." Drayton. Thyself and office deftly show. Shak.
• FITLY
  In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• DANCERESS
  A female dancer. Wyclif.
• DANCETTE
  Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• THYSELF
  An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without thou, and in the
• NEATLY
  In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• DANCE
  apinsan, and prob. from the same root as E. 1. To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, to the sound of music; to trip or leap
• DANCING
  from Dance. Dancing girl, one of the women in the East Indies whose profession is to dance in the temples, or for the amusement of spectators. There are various classes of dancing girls. -- Dancing master, a teacher of dancing. -- Dancing school,
• APTLY
  In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.
• DEXTEROUSLY
  In a dexterous manner; skillfully.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• OUTRECUIDANCE
  Excessive presumption. B. Jonson.
• FORBIDDANCE
  The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
• VERDANCY
  The quality or state of being verdant.
• ADANCE
  Dancing. Lowell.