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Word Meanings - SWIMMINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.

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  • GLIDING MACHINE
    A construction consisting essentially of one or more aƫroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
  • SWIMMINGNESS
    Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
  • SMOOTHLY
    In a smooth manner.
  • GLIDDEN
    p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
  • 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
  • SWIMMING
    1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one
  • GLIDEN
    p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
  • 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
  • SWIMMERET
    One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
  • GLIDINGLY
    In a gliding manner.
  • GLIDE
    The glede or kite.
  • 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
  • SWIMMER
    A protuberance on the leg of a horse. (more info) 1. One who swims.
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • SWIMMINGLY
    In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • GLIDING ANGLE
    The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aƫroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.
  • GLIDDER; GLIDDERY
    Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • FREE-SWIMMING
    Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • OVERGLIDE
    To glide over. Wyatt.

 

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