Word Meanings - CRISPLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a crisp manner.

Related words: (words related to CRISPLY)

• CRISPER
  One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• CRISPATURE
  The state of being crispate.
• 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
• CRISPIN
  1. A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft. 2. A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
• CRISPATE; CRISPATED
  Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.
• CRISPY
  1. Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks. 2. Crisp; brittle; as. a crispy pie crust.
• CRISP
  1. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair. 2. Curled with the ripple of the water. You numphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. Shak. 3. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp
• CRISPNESS
  The state or quality of being crisp.
• CRISPLY
  In a crisp manner.
• 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
• CRISPATION
  1. The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. Bacon. 2. A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O.
• 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.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• ENCRISPED
  Curled. Skelton.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.