Word Meanings - GRINDINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a grinding manner.

Related words: (words related to GRINDINGLY)

• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• GRINDLET
  A small drain.
• GRINDINGLY
  In a grinding manner.
• GRINDERY
  Leather workers' materials. Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale.
• GRINDELIA
  The dried stems and leaves of tarweed , used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.
• GRINDING
  from Grind. Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine. -- Grinding mill. A mill for grinding grain. A lapidary's lathe.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• 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
• GRIND
  1. To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. Take the millstones, and grind meal. Is. xivii. 2. 2. To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction;
• GRINDER
  The restless flycatcher of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes. Grinder's asthma, phthisis, or rot , a lung disease produced by the mechanical
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• 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
• GRINDED
  Ground. Sir W. Scott.
• 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
• GRINDLE
  The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle.
• 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.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.