Word Meanings - FLOATINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a floating manner.
Related words: (words related to FLOATINGLY)
- FLOATATION
See FLOTATION - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - FLOATABLE
That may be floated. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - FLOATY
Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh. - FLOATINGLY
In a floating manner. - FLOATAGE
See FLOTAGE - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - FLOATING CHARGE; FLOATING LIEN
A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed. - FLOATING
1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, - FLOATER
1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - FLOAT
A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. Mortimer. - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - REFLOAT
Reflux; ebb. Bacon. - AFLOAT
1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.