Word Meanings - SUPPLELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.

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• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• MILDLY
  In a mild manner.
• SUPPLELY
  In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
• SOFTLY
  In a soft 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
• SUPPLENESS
  The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
• SUPPLETORY
  That which is to supply what is wanted. Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. Jer. Taylor.
• SUPPLE
  1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers. 2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. Locke. 3. Bending to
• SUPPLEMENTAL; SUPPLEMENTARY
  Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air , the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary
• 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
• SUPPLEMENTATION
  The act of supplementing. C. Kingsley.
• SUPPLETIVE; SUPPLETORY
  Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• SUPPLE-CHAPPED
  Having a limber tongue. "A supple-chapped flatterer." Marston.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• SUPPLE-JACK
  A climbing shrub of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . .
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• COMPLIANTLY
  In a compliant manner.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• TREAD-SOFTLY
  Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.