with the manner
in the very act; red-handed.
O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since thou hast blush'd extempore.
manner
UK /ˈmænə/ US /ˈmænɚ/
noun 6verb 1name 1
Definitions
noun
1
Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything.
The treacherous manner of his mournful death.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
2
Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing.
His natural manner makes him seem like the boss.
[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
3
One's customary method of acting; habit.
These people have strange manners.
4
Good, polite behaviour.
Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father’s gentleness with admiration as well as wonder. Mr. Martin looked as if he did not know what manner was.
But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
5
The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
verb
1
To instill manners into.
They are there to manner a child's natural abilities. They are culture club authorities and representatives. They teach children appropriate public (and private) behavior; […]
noun
1
Something involving or requiring the specified number of men or people.
It was rather ironic that my first fire in every one of my three smokejunping ^([sic]) years was a high-mountain two-manner . . . and they all were on the Flathead National Forest […]
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