Word Meanings - HALTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a halting or limping manner.

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• LIMPET
  1. In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell. 2. Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides. Note: The common European limpets of the genus Patella (esp.
• HALTER
  One who halts or limps
• LIMPIDNESS
  Quality of being limpid; limpidity.
• HALTERES
  Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
• LIMPID
  Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream. Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. Woodward. Syn. -- Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright.
• LIMPSY; LIMSY
  Limp; flexible; flimsy.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• HALTINGLY
  In a halting or limping manner.
• LIMPINGLY
  In a limping manner.
• 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
• LIMPIN
  A limpet. Holland.
• LIMPKIN
  Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (A. giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (A.
• HALTER-SACK
  A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. Beau. & Fl.
• LIMPER
  One who limps.
• LIMPIDITY
  The quality or state of being limpid.
• LIMP
  To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively. Shak. (more info) E. lame, or to limp, a
• LIMPNESS
  The quality or state of being limp.
• 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
• ASPHALTITE
  Asphaltic.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ASPHALTIC
  Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous. "Asphaltic pool." "Asphaltic slime." Milton.
• SPRINGHALT
  A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt. Shak.
• FOOTHALT
  A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
• RETINASPHALT; RETINASPHALTUM
  Retinite.
• STRINGHALT
  An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
• ASPHALTUS
  See ASPHALT
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• WAG-HALTER
  One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged. I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter. Marston.