Word Meanings - WEDGEWISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the manner of a wedge.

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• 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
• WEDGE GAUGE; WEDGE GAGE
  A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.
• WEDGE-SHELL
  Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
• WEDGE-TAILED
  Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood. Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle which
• WEDGEBILL
  An Australian crested insessorial bird having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
• WEDGE-SHAPED
  Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• WEDGEWISE
  In the manner of a wedge.
• WEDGE-FORMED
  Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform. Wedge-formed characters. See Arrow-headed characters, under Arrowheaded.
• 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
• WEDGE GEAR
  A friction gear wheel with wedge-shaped circumferential grooves. -- Wedge gearing.
• 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
• WEDGE
  A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. 3. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. "Wedges of gold." Shak. 4. Anything in the form of a wedge,
• 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.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UNWEDGEABLE
  Not to be split with wedges. Shak.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.