Word Meanings - PERCURSORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.

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• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• HASTENER
  1. One who hastens. 2. That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
• HASTEN
  To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.
• 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.
• CURSORY
  1. Running about; not stationary. 2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.
• 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
• 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.
• SLIGHTLY
  1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak.
• HASTE
  hast, cf. OF. haste, F. hâte ; all perh. fr. the 1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals. The king's business required haste. 1 Sam. xxi. 8. 2. The state of
• 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.
• CHASTEN
  chastise; castus pure + agere to lead, drive. See Chaste, Act, and 1. To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• OVERHASTE
  Too great haste.
• OVERRUNNER
  One that overruns. Lovelace.
• UNCHASTE
  Not chaste; not continent; lewd. -- Un*chaste"ly, adv. -- Un*chaste"ness, n.
• TRUNNEL
  A trundle.
• PHILOSOPHASTER
  A pretender to philosophy. Dr. H. More.
• CHASTENER
  One who chastens.
• CHASTELY
  In a chaste manner; with purity.
• INRUNNING
  The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.
• PERCURSORY
  Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.
• TRUNNIONED
  Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
• ENCHASTEN
  To chasten.