Word Meanings - POROUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a porous manner.

Related words: (words related to POROUSLY)

• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• POROUSNESS
  1. The quality of being porous. 2. The open parts; the interstices of anything. They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. Sir K. Digby.
• 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
• 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
• POROUS
  Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton.
• 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
• POROUSLY
  In a porous 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.
• POLYSPOROUS
  Containing many spores.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• HETEROSPORIC; HETEROSPOROUS
  Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.
• THECASPOROUS
  Having the spores in thecæ, or cases.
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• ENDOSPOROUS
  Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• SAPOROUS
  Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste. Bailey.
• ISOSPOROUS
  Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• IMPOROUS
  Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid. Sir T. Browne.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• VAPOROUSNESS
  The quality of being vaporous.
• ACROSPOROUS
  Having acrospores.
• ANGIOSPOROUS
  Having spores contained in cells or thecæ, as in the case of some fungi.