Word Meanings - CURSORILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

Related words: (words related to CURSORILY)

• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• 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
• RUNNING
  Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. (more info) 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
• HASTY
  Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak 6. Forward; early; first ripe. "As the hasty fruit before the summer." Is. xxviii. 4. (more info) 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as,
• RUNNET
  See RENNET
• RUNNER
  A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• HASTY PUDDING
  1. A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. 2. A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk.
• RUNNEL
  A rivulet or small brook. Buddling rundels joined the sound. Collins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.
• 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.
• RUNNING LOAD
  The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing. Commonly, the whole weight of aëroplane and load divided by the span, or length from tip to tip.
• RUNNION
  See RONION
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERHASTY
  Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• OVERRUNNER
  One that overruns. Lovelace.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• TRUNNEL
  A trundle.
• INRUNNING
  The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.
• TRUNNIONED
  Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.