Word Meanings - PRYINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a prying manner.

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• PRYTANIS
  A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
• PRYAN
  See PRIAN
• PRY
  A lever; also, leverage. Pry pole, the pole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing the windlass.
• PRYTHEE
  See PRITHEE
• PRYINGLY
  In a prying manner.
• PRYTANEUM
  A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.
• 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
• PRYING
  Inspecting closely or impertinently. Syn. -- Inquisitive; curious. See Inquisitive.
• PRYTANY
  The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
• 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.
• LEPRY
  Leprosy. Holland.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• GOSSIPRY
  1. Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale. 2. Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.
• CAPRYLATE
  A salt of caprylic acid.
• CAPRYLIC
  See CAPRIC
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• SPRY
  Etym: She is as spry as a cricket. S. Judd . If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. Emerson.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.