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Word Meanings - WINNINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a winning manner.

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  • WINNOW
    comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. . See Wind moving 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley
  • WINNINGNESS
    The quality or state of being winning. "Winningness in style." J. Morley.
  • WINNER
    One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
  • WINNOWING
    The act of one who, or that which, winnows.
  • WINNARD
    The redwing.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • WINNING
    Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address. "Each mild and winning note." Keble.
  • 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
  • WINNINGLY
    In a winning manner.
  • WINNINISH
    The land-locked variety of the common salmon.
  • 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
  • WINNEBAGOES
    A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • WINNOWER
    One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • TWINNER
    One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • SWINNEY
    See SWEENY
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • TWINNED
    Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • TWINNING
    The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which

 

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