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Word Meanings - ANOTHER-GUESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.

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  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • 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
  • GUESS ROPE
    A guess warp.
  • ANOTHER
    1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
  • GUESSER
    One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
  • GUESS WARP
    A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
  • GUESS
    cf. Dan. giette to guess, Icel. geta to get, to guess. Probably 1. To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture. First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess. Pope. 2. To judge or
  • GUESSINGLY
    By way of conjecture. Shak.
  • ANOTHER-GAINES
    Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
  • 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
  • GUESSIVE
    Conjectural. Feltham.
  • 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.
  • GUESSWORK
    Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
  • ANOTHER-GATES
    Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
  • GUESSABLE
    Capable of being guessed.
  • FOREGUESS
    To conjecture.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • MISGUESS
    To guess wrongly.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.

 

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