Word Meanings - LAMELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.

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• CRIPPLY
  Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
• DISABLEMENT
  Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• DISABLE
  Lacking ability; unable. "Our disable and unactive force." Daniel.
• 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
• IMPERFECTIBLE
  Incapable of being mad perfect.
• CRIPPLER
  A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
• CRIPPLE
  One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. (more
• IMPERFECTIBILITY
  The state or quality of being imperfectible.
• CRIPPLING
  Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
• 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
• IMPERFECTNESS
  The state of being imperfect.
• 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
• DRAWNET
  A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
• FIGUREHEAD
  The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship. 2. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
• CRIPPLED
  Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.
• MERCHANDISABLE
  Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• CUBDRAWN
  Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• DEFIGURE
  To delineate. These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.