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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• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• 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.