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.