Word Meanings - POROUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a porous manner.
Related words: (words related to POROUSLY)
- MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - POROUSNESS
1. The quality of being porous. 2. The open parts; the interstices of anything. They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. Sir K. Digby. - 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 - 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 - POROUS
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton. - 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 - POROUSLY
In a porous 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. - POLYSPOROUS
Containing many spores. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - HETEROSPORIC; HETEROSPOROUS
Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other. - THECASPOROUS
Having the spores in thecæ, or cases. - VAPOROUS
1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable - ENDOSPOROUS
Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - SAPOROUS
Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste. Bailey. - ISOSPOROUS
Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - IMPOROUS
Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid. Sir T. Browne. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - VAPOROUSNESS
The quality of being vaporous. - ACROSPOROUS
Having acrospores. - ANGIOSPOROUS
Having spores contained in cells or thecæ, as in the case of some fungi.