Word Meanings - RAMBLINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a rambling manner.
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- RAMBLINGLY
In a rambling manner. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - RAMBLE
Etym: 1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect - 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 - RAMBLING
Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building. - 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 - RAMBLER
One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer. - 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. - SCRAMBLING
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott. - BRAMBLING
The European mountain finch ; -- called also bramble finch and bramble. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - SCRAMBLED EGGS
Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking, or eggs beaten slightly, often with a little milk, and stirred while cooking. - BRAMBLY
Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson. - SCRAMBLE
1. To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks. 2. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what - BRAMBLE
Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - BRAMBLE BUSH
The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - BRAMBLE NET
A net to catch birds. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.