Word Meanings - HANDILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.

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• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• HANDY-DANDY
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
• HANDY
  Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel. (more info) hendig , fr. hand hand; akin to D. handig, Goth. handugs 1. Performed by the hand. To draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton. 2. Skillful in using the hand; dexterous;
• HANDYGRIPE
  Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• HANDYFIGHT
  A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson.
• 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
• HANDYWORK
  See HANDIWORK
• HANDYSTROKE
  A blow with the hand.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• UNHANDY
  Clumsy; awkward; as, an Unhandy man.
• SHANDYGAFF
  A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• INCONVENIENTLY
  In an inconvenient manner; incommodiously; unsuitably; unseasonably.