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Word Meanings - STEALINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.

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  • MOTIONER
    One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
  • MOTIONIST
    A mover.
  • STEALINGLY
    By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
  • STEALTH
    1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • INVISIBLE
    Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible. To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works. Milton. Invisible bird , a small, shy singing bird (Myadestes sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands. -- Invisible green, a very
  • STEALTHLIKE
    Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
  • MOTIONLESS
    Without motion; being at rest.
  • STEALTHFUL
    Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
  • MOTION
    An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
  • INVISIBLENESS
    The quality or state of being invisible; invisibility.
  • STEALER
    The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.
  • FURTIVELY
    Stealthily by theft. Lover.
  • STEALTHINESS
    The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
  • STEALING
    1. The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. 2. That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • STEALTHILY
    In a stealthy manner.
  • STEALTHY
    Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.
  • STEAL
    A handle; a stale, or stele. And in his hand a huge poleax did bear. Whose steale was iron-studded but not long. Spenser.
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • NERVIMOTION
    The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
  • SUBPERIOSTEAL
    Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
  • IDEO-MOTION
    An ideo-motor movement.
  • PERIOSTEAL
    Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
  • FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
    Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.
  • PREMOTION
    Previous motion or excitement to action.
  • ELECTRO-MOTION
    The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
  • PAROSTEAL
    Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
  • LINK MOTION
    A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very
  • EMOTIONALIZE
    To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.

 

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