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Word Meanings - WHISTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a whist manner; silently.

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  • WHISTLER
    The hoary, or northern, marmot . (more info) 1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound. The ring ousel. The widgeon. The golden-eye. The golden plover and the gray plover.
  • 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
  • WHIST
    A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when
  • WHISTLING
    a. & n. from Whistle, v. Whistling buoy. See under Buoy. -- Whistling coot , the American black scoter. -- Whistling Dick. An Australian shrike thrush . The song thrush. -- Whistling duck. The golden-eye. A tree duck. -- Whistling
  • WHISTLE
    1. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves
  • WHISTLEWING
    The American golden-eye.
  • WHISTLINGLY
    In a whistling manner; shrilly.
  • WHISTLY
    In a whist manner; silently.
  • WHISTLEFISH
    A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
  • WHISTLEWOOD
    The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.
  • 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
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • SILENTLY
    In a silent manner.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • SOLO WHIST
    A card game played with the full pack ranking as at whist, each player declaring for which of seven different points he proposes to play.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • DOMINO WHIST
    A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.

 

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