Word Meanings - SUPPLELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
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- SUPPLEMENT
The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which - MILDLY
In a mild manner. - SUPPLELY
In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave. - SOFTLY
In a soft manner. - 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 - SUPPLENESS
The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy. - SUPPLETORY
That which is to supply what is wanted. Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. Jer. Taylor. - SUPPLE
1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers. 2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. Locke. 3. Bending to - SUPPLEMENTAL; SUPPLEMENTARY
Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air , the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary - 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 - 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 - SUPPLEMENTATION
The act of supplementing. C. Kingsley. - SUPPLETIVE; SUPPLETORY
Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath. - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - SUPPLE-CHAPPED
Having a limber tongue. "A supple-chapped flatterer." Marston. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - SUPPLE-JACK
A climbing shrub of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - COMPLIANTLY
In a compliant manner. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - TREAD-SOFTLY
Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.