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man-at-arms

A heavily armed and sometimes mounted soldier in medieval times.

Man-eater

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.

man-eating shark

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

man-hour man hour

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.

man-made

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.

man-made fiber

A fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes.

man-of-the-earth

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

Man-of-war

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

man-of-war bird

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.

man-sized

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

Manacle

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.

Manage

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

Manageability

The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.

Manageable

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

managed economy

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

Management

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.

Manager

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

Managerial

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

Managery

Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

managing director

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

managing editor

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

Manannan

The Irish god of the sea; son of Ler.

manatee

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

Manation

The act of issuing or flowing out.

Manbote

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

Manchester terrier

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

Manchet

Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.

Manchineel

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

Manchu

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

Manciple

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

Mancus

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.

Mandamus

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.

Mandarin

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

mandarin duck

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

mandarin orange

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.

Mandarinate

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

Mandarining

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.

Mandarinism

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

Mandatary

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.

Mandate

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

Mandator

A director; one who gives a mandate or order.

Mandelic

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

Mandible

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.

Mandibular

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

mandibular joint

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

Mandibuliform

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

Mandibulohyoid

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

mandil

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

Mandingos

An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.

Mandola

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

Mandore

A kind of four-stringed lute.

Mandragora

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

Mandragorite

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

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.

mandrake root

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

Mandrel

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.

mandril

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

mandrill

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.

Manduca

A genus of moths whose larvae are hornworms.

Manducus

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

Mane

The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.

maned sheep

A type of wild sheep (Ammotragus lervia) of northern Africa; called also Barbary sheep and aoudad.

maned wolf

A reddish-gray wolf (Canis rufus or Canis niger) of Southwestern North America.

Manege

The art of horsemanship, or of training horses.

Maneh

A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.

Manequin

An artist's model of wood or other material.

Manes

The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.

Manesheet

A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

Manful

Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.

Mangabey

Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus fuliginosus), which is sooty black.

Manganese

An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty (melting point 1244/ C), but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic number 25; Atomic weight 54.938 [C=12.011].

manganese bronze

A brass alloy having from 1 to 4 percent of manganese added to harden it; made by adding manganese to the copper and zinc used in brass.

Manganic

Of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous compounds. Cf. Manganous.

manganic acid

A dibasic acid H2MnO4, formed from manganese, analogous to sulphuric acid; it is found only in solution and in manganate salts.

Manganite

One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.

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