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  • English Word Manner Definition Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
  • English Word Manner Definition The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
  • English Word Manner Definition Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.
  • English Word Manner Definition Sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds.
  • English Word Mannered Definition Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self.
  • English Word Mannered Definition Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity.
  • English Word Mannerism Definition Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
  • English Word Mannerist Definition One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • English Word Mannerliness Definition The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.
  • English Word Mannerly Definition Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.
  • English Word Mannerly Definition With good manners.
  • English Word Mannheim gold Definition A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc.
  • English Word Mannide Definition A white amorphous or crystalline substance, obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.
  • English Word Manning Definition of Man
  • English Word Mannish Definition Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.
  • English Word Mannish Definition Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine.
  • English Word Mannish Definition Fond of men; -- said of a woman.
  • English Word Mannitan Definition A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.
  • English Word Mannitate Definition A salt of mannitic acid.
  • English Word Mannite Definition A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite.
  • English Word Mannite Definition A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.
  • English Word Mannitic Definition Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, mannite.
  • English Word Mannitol Definition The technical name of mannite. See Mannite.
  • English Word Mannitose Definition A variety of sugar obtained by the partial oxidation of mannite, and closely resembling levulose.
  • English Word Manoeuvre Definition Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.
  • English Word Manoeuvre Definition Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.
  • English Word Manoeuvre Definition To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.
  • English Word Manoeuvre Definition To manage with address or art; to scheme.
  • English Word Manoeuvre Definition To change the positions of, as of troops of ships.
  • English Word Manoeuvre Definition See Maneuver.