Word Meanings - HANDILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.
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- CONVENIENTLY
In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty. - HANDY-DANDY
A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman. - HANDY
Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel. (more info) hendig , fr. hand hand; akin to D. handig, Goth. handugs 1. Performed by the hand. To draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton. 2. Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; - HANDYGRIPE
Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - HANDYFIGHT
A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson. - 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 - HANDYWORK
See HANDIWORK - HANDYSTROKE
A blow with the hand. - 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 - 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. - UNHANDY
Clumsy; awkward; as, an Unhandy man. - SHANDYGAFF
A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - INCONVENIENTLY
In an inconvenient manner; incommodiously; unsuitably; unseasonably.