Word Meanings - SLACKLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a slack manner. Trench.
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- TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual. - TRENCHER
1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after - TRENCH
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak. 3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose - TRENCHANT
1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit. - SLACK; SLACKEN
1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; - 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 - TRENCHAND
Trenchant. Spenser. - TRENCHANTLY
In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely. - TRENCHMORE
A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl. - SLACKNESS
The quality or state of being slack. - SLACKLY
In a slack manner. Trench. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - SLACK
Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. Raymond. - 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 - SLACKEN
A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix - TRENCHER-MAN
1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. Shak. 2. A cook. The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney. 3. A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray. - 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. - FORSLACK
To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - AIR-SLACKED
Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime. - INTRENCHANT
Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak. - UNSLACKED
Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime. - RETRENCH
To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions. Syn. -- To lesen; diminish; curtail; abridge. (more info) 1. To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham. 2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench - UNTRENCHED
Being without trenches; whole; intact. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude.