MANACLING — MANIPULAR NWAD MANACLING.1

MANACLING, ppr. Confining the hands; shackling. NWAD MANACLING.1

MANAGE, v.t. NWAD MANAGE.1

1. To conduct; to carry on; to direct the concerns of; as, to manage a farm; to manage the affairs of a family. NWAD MANAGE.2

What wars I manage, and what wreaths I gain. NWAD MANAGE.3

2. To train or govern, as a horse. NWAD MANAGE.4

They vault from hunters to the managed steed. NWAD MANAGE.5

3. To govern; to control; to make tame or tractable; as, the buffalo is too refractory to be managed. NWAD MANAGE.6

4. To wield; to move or use in the manner desired; to have under command. NWAD MANAGE.7

Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed. NWAD MANAGE.8

5. To make subservient. NWAD MANAGE.9

Antony managed him to his own views. NWAD MANAGE.10

6. To husband; to treat with caution or sparingly. NWAD MANAGE.11

The less he had to lose, the less he car’d NWAD MANAGE.12

To manage lithesome life, when love was the reward. NWAD MANAGE.13

7. To treat with caution or judgment; to govern with address. NWAD MANAGE.14

It was much his interest to manage his protestant subjects. NWAD MANAGE.15

MANAGE, v.i. To direct or conduct affairs; to carry on concerns or business. NWAD MANAGE.16

Leave them to manage for thee. NWAD MANAGE.17

MANAGE, n. Conduct; administration; as the manage of the state or kingdom. NWAD MANAGE.18

1. Government; control, as of a horse, or the exercise of riding him. NWAD MANAGE.19

2. Discipline; governance; direction. NWAD MANAGE.20

3. Use; application or treatment. NWAD MANAGE.21

Quicksilver will not endure the manage of the fire. NWAD MANAGE.22

[This word is nearly obsolete in all its applications, unless in reference to horses. We now use management.] NWAD MANAGE.23

MANAGEABLE, a. Easy to be used or directed to its proper purpose; not difficult to be moved or wielded. Heavy cannon are not very manageable. NWAD MANAGEABLE.1

1. Governable; tractable; that may be controlled; as a manageable horse. NWAD MANAGEABLE.2

2. That may be made subservient to one’s views or designs. NWAD MANAGEABLE.3

MANAGEABLENESS, n. The quality of being easily used, or directed to its proper purpose; as the manageableness of an instrument. NWAD MANAGEABLENESS.1

1. Tractableness; the quality of being susceptible of government and control; easiness to be governed. NWAD MANAGEABLENESS.2

MANAGED, pp. Conducted; carried on; trained by discipline; governed; controlled; wielded. NWAD MANAGED.1

MANAGEMENT, n. Conduct; administration; manner of treating, directing or carrying on; as the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. NWAD MANAGEMENT.1

1. Cunning practice; conduct directed by art, design or prudence; contrivance. NWAD MANAGEMENT.2

Mark with what management their tribes divide. NWAD MANAGEMENT.3

2. Practice; transaction; dealing. NWAD MANAGEMENT.4

He had great management with ecclesiastics, in the view to be advanced to the pontificate. NWAD MANAGEMENT.5

3. Modulation; variation. NWAD MANAGEMENT.6

All directions as to the management of the voice, must be regarded as subsidiary to the expression of feeling. NWAD MANAGEMENT.7

MANAGER, n. One who has the conduct or direction of any thing; as the manager of a theater; the manager of a lottery, of a ball, etc. NWAD MANAGER.1

A skilful manager of the rabble. NWAD MANAGER.2

An artful manager, that crept between-- NWAD MANAGER.3

1. A person who conducts business with economy and frugality; a good husband. NWAD MANAGER.4

A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure. NWAD MANAGER.5

MANAGERY, n. [from manage.] conduct; direction; administration. NWAD MANAGERY.1

1. Husbandry; economy; frugality. NWAD MANAGERY.2

2. Manner of using. NWAD MANAGERY.3

[Little used or obsolete in all its applications.] NWAD MANAGERY.4

MANAGING, ppr. Conducting; regulating; directing; governing; wielding. NWAD MANAGING.1

MANAKIN, n. The name of a beautiful race of birds found in warm climates. NWAD MANAKIN.1

MANATI, MANATUS, n. The sea-cow, or fish-tailed walrus, an animal of the genus Trichechus, which grows to an enormous size; sometimes it is said, to the length twenty three feet. Of this animal there are two varieties, the australis, or lamentin, and borealis, or whale-tailed manati. It has fore feet palmated, and furnished with claws, but the hind part ends in a tail like that of a fish. The skin is of a dark color, the eyes small, and instead of teeth, the mouth is furnished with hard bones, extending the whole length of the jaws. NWAD MANATI.1

[There are eight grinders on each side in each jaw.] It never leaves the water, but frequents the mouths of rivers, feeding on grass that grows in the water. NWAD MANATI.2

MANATION, n. [L. manatio, from mano, to flow.] NWAD MANATION.1

The act of issuing or flowing out. [Little used.] NWAD MANATION.2

MANCHET, n. A small loaf of fine bread. [Not used.] NWAD MANCHET.1

MANCHINEEL, n. [L. mancanilla.] A tree of the genus Hippomane, growing in the West Indies to the size of a large oak. It abounds in an acrid, milky juice of a poisonous quality. It bears a fruit of the size of a pippin, which, when eaten, causes inflammation in the mouth and throat, pains in the stomach, etc. The wood is valuable for cabinet work. NWAD MANCHINEEL.1

MANCIPATE, v.t. [L. mancipo, from manceps, mancipium; manu capio, to take with the hand.] To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Little used.] NWAD MANCIPATE.1

MANCIPATION, n. Slavery; involuntary servitude. [Little used.] NWAD MANCIPATION.1

MANCIPLE, n. [L. manceps; manu capio, supra.] NWAD MANCIPLE.1

A steward; an undertaker; a purveyor, particularly of a college. NWAD MANCIPLE.2

MANDAMUS, n. [L. mando, to command; mandamus, we command. The primary sense is to send.] NWAD MANDAMUS.1

In law, a command or writ, issuing from the king’s bench in England, and in America, from some of the higher courts, directed to any person, corporation, or inferior court, requiring them to do some act therein specified, which appertains to their office and duty; as to admit or restore a person to an office or franchise, or to an academical degree, or to deliver papers, annex a seal to a paper, etc. NWAD MANDAMUS.2

MANDARIN, n. In China, a magistrate or governor of a province; also, the court language of China. NWAD MANDARIN.1

MANDATARY, MANDATORY, n. [L. mando, to command.] NWAD MANDATARY.1

1. A person to whom the pope has by his prerogative given a mandate or order for his benefice. NWAD MANDATARY.2

2. One to whom a command or charge is given. NWAD MANDATARY.3

3. In law, one who undertakes, without a recompense, to do some act for another in respect to the thing bailed to him. NWAD MANDATARY.4

MANDATE, n. [L. mando, to command.] NWAD MANDATE.1

1. A command; an order, precept or injunction; a commission. NWAD MANDATE.2

This dream all powerful Juno sends; I bear NWAD MANDATE.3

Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. NWAD MANDATE.4

2. In canon law, a rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation. NWAD MANDATE.5

MANDATOR, a. [L.] A director. NWAD MANDATOR.1

MANDATORY, a. Containing a command; preceptive; directory. NWAD MANDATORY.1

MANDIBLE, n. [L. mando, to chew.] The jaw, the instrument of chewing; applied particularly to fowls. NWAD MANDIBLE.1

MANDIBULAR, a. Belonging to the jaw. NWAD MANDIBULAR.1

MANDIL, n. A sort of mantle. [Not in use.] NWAD MANDIL.1

MANDILION, n. [supra.] A soldier’s coat; a loose garment. NWAD MANDILION.1

MANDLESTONE, n. Kernel-stone; almond-stone, called also amygdaloid; a name given to stones or rocks which have kernels enveloped in paste. NWAD MANDLESTONE.1

MANDMENT, for commandment, is not in use. NWAD MANDMENT.1

MANDOLIN, n. A cithern or harp. [Not in use.] NWAD MANDOLIN.1

MANDRAKE, n. [L. mandragoras.] A plant of the genus Atropa, growing naturally in Spain, Italy and the Levant. It is a narcotic, and its fresh roots are a violent cathartic. Its effect in rendering barren women prolific is supposed to be imaginary. NWAD MANDRAKE.1

MANDREL, n. An instrument for confining in the lathe the substance to be turned. NWAD MANDREL.1

MANDRILL, n. A species of monkey. NWAD MANDRILL.1

MANDUCABLE, a. That can be chewed; fit to be eaten. NWAD MANDUCABLE.1

MANDUCATE, v.t. [L. mando.] To chew. NWAD MANDUCATE.1

MANDUCATED, pp. Chewed. NWAD MANDUCATED.1

MANDUCATING, ppr. Chewing; grinding with the teeth. NWAD MANDUCATING.1

MANDUCATION, n. The act of chewing or eating. NWAD MANDUCATION.1

MANE, n. The hair growing on the upper side of the neck of a horse or other animal, usually hanging down on one side. NWAD MANE.1

MANEATER, n. A human being that feeds on human flesh; a cannibal; an anthropophagite. NWAD MANEATER.1

MANED, a. Having a mane. NWAD MANED.1

MANEGE, n. A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses. NWAD MANEGE.1

MANERIAL. [See Manorial.] NWAD MANERIAL.1

MANES, n. plu. [L.] The ghost, shade or soul of a deceased person; and among the ancient pagans, the infernal deities. NWAD MANES.1

1. The remains of the dead. NWAD MANES.2

Hail, O ye holy manes! NWAD MANES.3

MANEUVER, n. [L. manus, the hand, and oeuvre, work, L. opera.] NWAD MANEUVER.1

1. Management; dexterous movement, particularly in an army or navy; any evolution, movement or change of position among companies, battalions, regiments, ships, etc. for the purpose of distributing the forces in the best manner to meet the enemy. NWAD MANEUVER.2

2. Management with address or artful design. NWAD MANEUVER.3

MANEUVER, v.i. To move or change positions among troops or ships, for the purpose of advantageous attack of defense; or in military exercise, for the purpose of discipline. NWAD MANEUVER.4

1. To manage with address or art. NWAD MANEUVER.5

MANEUVER, v.t. To change the positions of troops or ships. NWAD MANEUVER.6

MANEUVERED, pp. Moved in position. NWAD MANEUVERED.1

MANEUVERING, ppr. Changing the position or order for advantageous attack or defense. NWAD MANEUVERING.1

MANFUL, a. [man and full.] Having the spirit of a man; bold; brave; courageous. NWAD MANFUL.1

1. Noble; honorable. NWAD MANFUL.2

MANFULLY, adv. Boldly; courageously; honorably. NWAD MANFULLY.1

MANFULNESS, n. Boldness; courageousness. NWAD MANFULNESS.1

MANGABY, n. A monkey with naked eyelids; the white-eyed monkey. NWAD MANGABY.1

MANGANESE, n. A metal of a dusky white, or whitish gray color, very hard and difficult to fuse. It never occurs as a natural product in a metallic state. The substance usually so called is an oxyd of manganese, but not pure. NWAD MANGANESE.1

MANGANESIAN, a. Pertaining to manganese; consisting of it or partaking of its qualities. NWAD MANGANESIAN.1

MANGANESIATE, n. A compound of manganesic acid, with a base. NWAD MANGANESIATE.1

MANGANESIC, a. Obtained from manganese; as the manganesic acid. NWAD MANGANESIC.1

[Manganic is ill formed.] NWAD MANGANESIC.2

MANGANESIOUS, a. Manganesious acid is an acid with a minimum of oxygen. NWAD MANGANESIOUS.1

MANGCORN, n. A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain. [Not used in America.] NWAD MANGCORN.1

MANGE, n. The scab or itch in cattle, dogs and other beasts. NWAD MANGE.1

MANGEL-WURZEL, n. The root of scarcity, a plant of the beet kind. NWAD MANGEL-WURZEL.1

MANGER, n. [L. mando.] NWAD MANGER.1

1. A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed. NWAD MANGER.2

2. In ships of war, a space across the deck, within the hawse-holes, separated from the after part of the deck, to prevent the water which enters the hawse-holes from running over the deck. NWAD MANGER.3

MANGER-BOARD, n. The bulk-head on a ship’s deck that separates the manger from the other part of the deck. NWAD MANGER-BOARD.1

MANGINESS, n. [from mangy.] Scabbiness; infection of the mange. NWAD MANGINESS.1

MANGLE, v.t. NWAD MANGLE.1

1. To cut with a dull instrument and tear, or to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; applied chiefly to the cutting of flesh. NWAD MANGLE.2

And seized with fear, forgot his mangled meat. NWAD MANGLE.3

2. To curtail; to take by piece-meal. NWAD MANGLE.4

MANGLE, n. [L. mango.] NWAD MANGLE.5

1. A rolling press or calendar for smoothing cloth. NWAD MANGLE.6

2. A name of the mangrove, which see. NWAD MANGLE.7

MANGLE, v.t. To smooth cloth with a mangle; to calendar. NWAD MANGLE.8

MANGLED, pp. Torn in cutting; smoothed with a mangle. NWAD MANGLED.1

MANGLER, n. One who tears in cutting; one who uses a mangle. NWAD MANGLER.1

MANGLING, ppr. Lacerating in the act of cutting; tearing. NWAD MANGLING.1

MANGO, n. The fruit of the mango tree, a native of the East Indies, of the genus Mangifera. It is brought to us only when pickled. Hence mango is the green fruit of the tree pickled. NWAD MANGO.1

1. A green muskmelon pickled. NWAD MANGO.2

MANGONEL, n. An engine formerly used for throwing stones and battering walls. NWAD MANGONEL.1

MANGONISM, n. The art of setting off to advantage. NWAD MANGONISM.1

MANGONIZE, v.t. To polish for setting off to advantage. NWAD MANGONIZE.1

MANGOSTAN, MANGOSTEEN, n. A tree of the East Indies, of the genus Garcinia, so called from Dr. Garcin, who described it. The tree grows to the highth of 18 feet, and bears fruit of the size of a crab apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food. NWAD MANGOSTAN.1

MANGROVE, n. A tree of the East and West Indies, otherwise called mangle, and of the genus Rhizophora. One species, the black mangle, grows in waters on the sides of rivers. The red mangrove does not grow in water. Its wood is of a deep red color, compact and heavy. The soft part of the bark of the white mangrove is formed into ropes. NWAD MANGROVE.1

1. The name of a fish. NWAD MANGROVE.2

MANGY, a. [from mange.] Scabby; infected with the mange. NWAD MANGY.1

MANHATER, n. [man and hate.] One who hates mankind; a misanthrope. NWAD MANHATER.1

MANHOOD, n. [man and hood.] The state of one who is a man, of an adult male, or one who is advanced beyond puberty, boyhood or childhood; virility. NWAD MANHOOD.1

1. Virility; as opposed to womanhood. NWAD MANHOOD.2

2. Human nature; as the manhood of Christ. NWAD MANHOOD.3

3. The qualities of a man; courage; bravery; resolution. [Little used.] NWAD MANHOOD.4

MANIA, n. [L. and Gr.] Madness. NWAD MANIA.1

MANIABLE, a. Manageable; tractable. [Not in use.] NWAD MANIABLE.1

MANIAC, a. [L. maniacus.] Mad; raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect. NWAD MANIAC.1

MANIAC, n. A madman; one raving with madness. NWAD MANIAC.2

MANIACAL, a. Affected with madness. NWAD MANIACAL.1

MANICHEAN, a. Pertaining to the Manichees. NWAD MANICHEAN.1

MANICHEAN, MANICHEE, n. One of a sect in Persia, who maintained that there are two supreme principles, the one good, the other evil, which produce all the happiness and calamities of the world. The first principle, or light, they held to be the author of all good; the second, or darkness, the author of all evil. The founder of the sect was Manes. NWAD MANICHEAN.2

MANICHEISM, n. [supra.] The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained by the Manichees. NWAD MANICHEISM.1

MANICHORD, MANICORDON, n. A musical instrument in the form of a spinet, whose strings, like those of the clavichord, are covered with little pieces of cloth to deaden and soften their sounds; whence it is called the dumb spinet. NWAD MANICHORD.1

MANICON, n. A species of nightshade. NWAD MANICON.1

MANIFEST, a. [L. manifestus.] NWAD MANIFEST.1

1. Plain, open, clearly visible to the eye or obvious to the understanding; apparent; not obscure or difficult to be seen or understood. From the testimony, the truth we conceive to be manifest. NWAD MANIFEST.2

Thus manifest to sight the god appeared. NWAD MANIFEST.3

That which may be known of God is manifest in them. Romans 1:19. NWAD MANIFEST.4

2. Detected; with of. NWAD MANIFEST.5

Calistho there stood manifest of shame. [Unusual.] NWAD MANIFEST.6

MANIFEST, n. An invoice of a cargo of goods, imported or laden for export, to be exhibited at the custom-house by the master of the vessel, or the owner or shipper. NWAD MANIFEST.7

MANIFEST, MANIFESTO, n. [L. manifestus, manifest.] A public declaration, usually of a prince or sovereign, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives; as a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives. [Manifesto only is now used.] NWAD MANIFEST.8

MANIFEST, v.t. [L. manifesto.] To reveal; to make to appear; to show plainly; to make public; to disclose to the eye or to the understanding. NWAD MANIFEST.9

Nothing is hid, which shall not be manifested. Mark 4:22. NWAD MANIFEST.10

He that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. John 14:21. NWAD MANIFEST.11

Thy life did manifest thou lov’dst me not. NWAD MANIFEST.12

1. To display; to exhibit more clearly to the view. The wisdom of God is manifested in the order and harmony of creation. NWAD MANIFEST.13

MANIFESTATION, n. The act of disclosing what is secret, unseen or obscure; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; the exhibition of any thing by clear evidence; display; as the manifestation of God’s power in creation, or of his benevolence in redemption. NWAD MANIFESTATION.1

The secret manner in which acts of mercy ought to be performed, requires this public manifestation of them at the great day. NWAD MANIFESTATION.2

MANIFESTED, pp. Made clear; disclosed; made apparent, obvious or evident. NWAD MANIFESTED.1

MANIFESTIBLE, a. That may be made evident. NWAD MANIFESTIBLE.1

MANIFESTING, ppr. Showing clearly; making evident; disclosing, displaying. NWAD MANIFESTING.1

MANIFESTLY, adv. Clearly; evidently; plainly; in a manner to be clearly seen or understood. NWAD MANIFESTLY.1

MANIFESTNESS, n. Clearness to the sight or mind; obviousness. NWAD MANIFESTNESS.1

MANIFESTO. [See Manifest.] NWAD MANIFESTO.1

MANIFOLD, a. [many and fold.] Of divers kinds; many in number; numerous; multiplied. NWAD MANIFOLD.1

O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Psalm 104:24. NWAD MANIFOLD.2

I know your manifold transgressions. Amos 5:12. NWAD MANIFOLD.3

1. Exhibited or appearing at divers times or in various ways; applied to words in the singular number; as the manifold wisdom of God, or his manifold grace. Ephesians 3:10; 1 Peter 4:10. NWAD MANIFOLD.4

MANIFOLDED, a. Having many doublings or complications; as a manifolded shield. [Not used.] NWAD MANIFOLDED.1

MANIFOLDLY, adv. In a manifold manner; in many ways. NWAD MANIFOLDLY.1

MANIFOLDNESS, n. Multiplicity. NWAD MANIFOLDNESS.1

MANIGLIONS, n. In gunnery, two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance, after the German way of casting. NWAD MANIGLIONS.1

MANIKIN, n. A little man. NWAD MANIKIN.1

MANIL, MANILLA, n. [L. manus.] A ring or bracelet worn by persons in Africa. NWAD MANIL.1

MANIOC, MANIHOC, MANIHOT, n. A plant of the genus Jatropha, or Cassada plant. It has palmated leaves, with entire lobes. Manioc is an acrid plant, but from its root is extracted a pleasant nourishing substance, called cassava. This is obtained by grating the root, and pressing out the juice, which is an acrid and noxious poison. The substance is then dried and baked, or roasted on a plate of hot iron. NWAD MANIOC.1

MANIPLE, n. [L. manipulus, a handful. Qu. L. manus and the Teutonic full.] NWAD MANIPLE.1

1. A handful. NWAD MANIPLE.2

2. A small band of soldiers; a word applied only to Roman troops. NWAD MANIPLE.3

3. A fanon, or kind of ornament worn about the arm of a mass priest; or a garment worn by the Romish priests when they officiate. NWAD MANIPLE.4

MANIPULAR, a. Pertaining to the maniple. NWAD MANIPULAR.1