Manner

1. n. Sort; kind; style; — in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds.
2. n. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
3. n. Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one’s self, or the like; bearing; habitual style.
4. n. Customary method of acting; habit.
5. n. Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
6. n. The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
7. n. Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.