Word Meanings - SWIMMINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.

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• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• SWIMMINGNESS
  Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• GLIDDEN
  p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
• 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
• SWIMMING
  1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one
• GLIDEN
  p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
• 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
• SWIMMERET
  One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
• GLIDINGLY
  In a gliding manner.
• GLIDE
  The glede or kite.
• 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
• SWIMMER
  A protuberance on the leg of a horse. (more info) 1. One who swims.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• SWIMMINGLY
  In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• GLIDING ANGLE
  The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aëroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.
• GLIDDER; GLIDDERY
  Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• FREE-SWIMMING
  Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• OVERGLIDE
  To glide over. Wyatt.