To tear to pieces.

Coarse plain India muslins.

Mastology. See Mammalogy.

Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.

Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon.

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.

A mammonite.

One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon.

The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.

To make mammonish.

Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.

Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.

An extinct genus comprising the mammoths.

The species name for the woolly mammoth, a very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the Northern hemisphere.

An extinct natural family of mammals, comprising the mastodons.

A child's name for mamma, mother.

A tropical American tree (Melicocca bijuga, or Melicocca bijugatus) bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.

A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.

To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.

A man and woman who are married to each other; a married couple.

A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; a devoted assistant.

An average person; as, the views of the man in the street.

A single individual person; as, every man jack of them.

A person who prefers to act rather than contemplate and gets things accomplished quickly an efficiently.

A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive).

Same as man of action.

A writer, especially one who writes for a living.

A wealthy person.

A scientist.

A worldly-wise person; a sophisticate.

A heavily armed and sometimes mounted soldier in medieval times.

One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon carcharias syn. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.

A term applied to sharks that attack humans, especially the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), a large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas.

The quantity of work which one person can perform in one hour; -- often an estimate made for the purpose of deciding whether to undertake a project, and sometimes used in accounting; as, it will take a hundred man-hours to write the program.

Not of natural origin; prepared or made by humans; artificial; of substances, made by chemical reaction rather than extracted from a natural source; as, man-made fibers; man-made gems. Opposed to natural.

A fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes.

A long-rooted morning glory (Ipomoea leptophylla) of Western U. S.

A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war.

The frigate bird, a long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail; also applied to the skua gulls, and to the wandering albatross.

Calling for manly attributes; as, a man-sized job.

Marriageable.

Same as Menace.

To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers.

To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.

The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.

Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.

A non-market economy in which government intervention is important in allocating goods and resources and determining prices.

Unmanageable.

The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of a business enterprise; the management of state affairs.

An adviser to business about efficient management practices.

Personnel having ovrall planning and direction responsibilities.

One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.

A woman manager.

Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities.

The office or position of a manager.

Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

A person who manages a busness though not the owner or chief executive.

The editor in charge of all editorial activities of a newspaper or magazine.

A dwarf. See Manikin.

Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called also sea cow.

The act of issuing or flowing out.

An aviator.

A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant).

See Mancus.

A sleeve.

A breed of short-haired black-and-tan terrier developed in Manchester England.

Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.

A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.

Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Manchuria; also, the language spoken by the Manchus.

To enslave; to bind; to restrict.

Slavery; involuntary servitude.

A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.

An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.

A demand.

A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

A showy crested Asiatic duck (Aix galericulata, formerly Dendronessa galericulata), often domesticated, and regarded by the Chinese as an emblem of conjugal affection.

A shrub or small tree (Citrus reticulata) having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to Southeast Asia.

The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.

Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid.

A government by mandarins (senses 1 or 2); character or spirit of the mandarins{2}.

One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.

An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

A director; one who gives a mandate or order.

Same as Mandatary.

A salt of mandelic acid.

Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.

See Maunder.

A mandrel.

The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible. The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.

The joint between the head of the lower jawbone and the temporal bone.

An insect having mandibles.

Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.

Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.

Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.

A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.

See Mandil.

An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.

See Manioc.

Amygdaloid.

Commandment.

An instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower.

A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.

A kind of four-stringed lute.

A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region.

The root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic; as a substance it is also called mandrake.

A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor. The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

any of various shafts that rotate or serve as axes for larger rotating parts.

A large West African baboon (Papio sphinx syn. Mandrillus sphinx, formerly Cynocephalus mormon syn. Papio mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red. It is an endangered species.

A genus of moths whose larvae are hornworms.

Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten.

To masticate; to chew; to eat.

The act of chewing.

Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.