Definition of properly

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Properly (adv.) Individually; after one's own manner.

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Cedrat :: Cedrat (n.) Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume..
Multifariousness :: Multifariousness (n.) The fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them..
Internode :: Internode (n.) The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise.
Skewbald :: Skewbald (a.) Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses..
Photodrome :: Photodrome (n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction..
Misbehave :: Misbehave (v. t. & i.) To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
Unsighted :: Unsighted (a.) Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon..
Rather :: Rather (a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.
Excepting :: Excepting (prep. & conj., but properly a participle) With rejection or exception of; excluding; except..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent..
Pump :: Pump (n.) An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston..
Misassay :: Misassay (v. t.) To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully..
Improperly :: Improperly (adv.) In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
Idyl :: Idyl (n.) A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like..
Bayard :: Bayard (a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter..
Misobserver :: Misobserver (n.) One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
Triangulate :: Triangulate (v. t.) To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured..
Triable :: Triable (a.) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another..
Metatungstic :: Metatungstic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid..
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