The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. The shelf is called also a mantelpiece or mantlepiece.

A short cloak formerly worn by knights. A short cloak or mantle worn by women.

A silk or woolen vestment without sleeves worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court. It has a low collar, is fastened in front, and reaches almost to the knees.

Same as Mantel.

The shelf of a mantel.

The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses.

Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic.

A mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.

A mantis.

The natural family conmprising the mantises. Same as Manteidae.

The manticore.

A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.

The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC.

Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are predacious long-bodied large-eyed insects of warm regions, are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is Mantis Carolina.

Same as Squilla.

Same as Squilla.

Any neuropterous insect of the genus Mantispa, and allied genera. The larvae feed on plant lice. Also used adjectively. See Illust. under Neuroptera.

The natural family comprising the mantispids.

The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.

A common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel (Citellus lateralis) of western North America, resembling a large chipmunk.

A shelf that projects from the wall above a fireplace; a mantel; as, in England they call a mantelpiece a chimneypiece.

See Mantelet.

The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.

See Manteau.

One who is skilled in mantology; a diviner.

The act or art of divination.

A skin test for hypersensitivity to tuberculin. It determines whether there is or has been any infection with tubercle bacilli.

A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm.

A trap for catching trespassers.

A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.

One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.

Of or pertaining to Mantua. A native or inhabitant of Mantua.

One of a series of progenitors of human beings, and authors of human wisdom.

A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.

An alphabet of signs made by movement of the hands, used by the deaf; in it letters are represented by finger positions. See Dactylology.

Adroitness in using the hands.

A person who works with the hands, rather than with the mind.

Labor done with the hands.

One who works with the hands; an artificer.

By hand. In some contexts, contrasted with automatically.

Manual. An artificer.

Belonging to spoils; taken in war.

Of or pertaining to a manubrium; shaped like a manubrium; handlelike.

Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.

One who leads by the hand; a manuductor.

Guidance by the hand.

A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music.

Pertaining to manufacturing.

Of or pertaining to manufactures.

To be employed in manufacturing something.

Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with hand-made.

One who manufactures.

Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.

A business engaged in manufacturing some product.

A factory.

A wild cat (Felis manul), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks.

To manumit.

The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.

Movable by hand.

A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it.

Capable of cultivation.

Cultivation.

Cultivation.

To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance. dung, the contents of stables and barnyards, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.

Cultivation.

One who manures land.

Relating to manures.

The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.

The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.

An original literary or musical composition written by the author, formerly with the hand, now usually by typewriter or word processor. It is contrasted with a printed copy.

Manuscript.

Maintenance.

A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through.

The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.

A breed of domestic cats having a rudimentary tail, containing only about three vertebrae. It is believed to have originated on the Isle of Man.

A small black-and-white oceanic bird (Puffinus puffinus, or Puffinus anglorum), common in the Eastern North Atlantic. Called also Manx petrel, Manx puffin. It is avariety of shearwater. It was formerly abundant in the Isle of Man.

The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.

Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

Having many sides; -- said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.

The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

In many different ways; variously.

A kind of small roundish olive with a small freestone pit, a fine skin, and a peculiar bitterish flavor. Manzanillas are commonly pitted and stuffed with Spanish pimientos.

A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to Arctostaphylos glauca and Arctostaphylos pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.

See Mao Tsetung.

The leader of the Chinese communist party and later of the People's Republic of China; b. 1893, d. 1976. Also referred to a simply Mao.

A form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong.

An advocate of Maoism.

One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand. Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.

A flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.

To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business.

The raccoon.

A supposed human-sized slothlike creature reported sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest.

A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or swamp maple is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, Acer dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is Acer platanoides.

The natural family of trees Aceraceae, including the maples.

A tuberous or semi-tuberous South African begonia (Begonia dregei) having shallowly lobed ovate leaves and small white flowers.

An Indian tree (Pterospermum acerifolium) having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree. Called also mayeng.

Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.

A person who makes maps; a cartographer.

The making of maps and charts; cartography.

The making, or study, of maps.

A function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set. Same as map{4}.

A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.

A guerrilla fighter in the French underground in World War II.

A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.

A blundering preacher.

The Patagonian cavy, a hare-like rodent (Dolichotis patagonum or Dolichotis Patagonicus) of the pampas of Argentina.

A large black-and-white carrion-eating stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (Leptoptilus crumeniferus syn. Leptoptilos crumenifer), whose downy under-wing feathers are used to trim garments; called also marabout. The Asiatic species (Leptoptilos dubius, or Leptoptilos argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.

A Muslim saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.

A macaw.

A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

/Our Lord cometh;/ -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, /May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes./ See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.

A Philippine tree (Artocarpus odoratissima) similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit. Called also marang.

A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea, the American arrowroot or obedience plant) arrowroot (arrowroot starch) is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.

A natural family of tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes, including the arrowroot; the arrowroot family.

The small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.

A Dalmation bitter wild cherry tree (Prunus cerasus marasca) bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur.

A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.