Word Meanings - SQUARELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a square form or manner.

Related words: (words related to SQUARELY)

• SQUARE-TOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• SQUARELY
  In a square form or manner.
• SQUARE-RIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• 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
• SQUARE
  An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. 5. Hence, a pattern or rule. (more
• 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
• SQUARER
  1. One who, or that which, squares. 2. One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow. Shak.
• SQUARE-TOES
  A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.
• 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
• SQUARENESS
  The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.
• 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.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• T SQUARE
  See T
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CAPSQUARE
  A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• FOURSQUARE
  Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• TRY-SQUARE
  An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.