Mammiferous Mam·mif"er·ous adjective [ Mamma breast + -ferous : confer French mammifère .] Having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the Mammalia.

Mammiform Mam"mi·form adjective [ Mamma breast + -form : confer French mammiforme .] Having the form of a mamma (breast) or mammæ.

Mammilla Mam·mil"la noun ; plural Mammilæ . [ Latin , dim. of mamma a breast.] (Anat.) The nipple.

Mammillary Mam"mil·la·ry adjective [ Confer French mammilaire . See Mammilla .] 1. Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid. 2. (Min.) Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.

Mammillate, Mammillated Mam"mil·late, Mam"mil·la`ted adjective [ See Mammilla .] 1. Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammæ. 2. (Zoology) Bounded like a nipple; -- said of the apex of some shells.

Mammilliform Mam·mil"li·form adjective [ Mammilla + -form .] Having the form of a mammilla.

Mammilloid Mam"mil·loid adjective [ Mammilla + -oid .] Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.

Mammock Mam"mock noun [ Ir. & Gael. mam a round hill + -ock .] A shapeless piece; a fragment. [ Obsolete]

Mammock Mam"mock transitive verb To tear to pieces. [ Obsolete] Milton.

Mammodis Mam"mo·dis noun [ French mamoudis , from Hind. mahmūdī a muslin.] Coarse plain India muslins.

Mammology Mam·mol"o·gy noun [ Mamma + -logy .] Mastology. See Mammalogy .

Mammon Mam"mon noun [ Latin mammona , Greek ... riches, Syr. mam...nā ; confer Hebrew matm...n a hiding place, subterranean storehouse, treasury, from tāman to hide.] Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.

Ye can not serve God and Mammon .

Matt. vi. 24.

Mammonish Mam"mon·ish adjective Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.

Mammonism Mam"mon·ism noun Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. Carlyle.

Mammonist Mam"mon·ist noun A mammonite.

Mammonite Mam"mon·ite noun One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.

Mammonization Mam`mon·i·za"tion noun The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.

Mammonize Mam"mon·ize transitive verb To make mammonish.

Mammose Mam·mose" adjective [ Latin mammosus having large breasts, mamma breast.] (Botany) Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.

Mammoth Mam"moth noun [ Russian mâmont , mámant , from Tartar mamma the earth. Certain Tartar races, the Tungooses and Yakoots, believed that the mammoth worked its way in the earth like a mole.] (Zoology) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant ( Elephas primigenius ), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man. » Several specimens have been found in Siberia preserved entire, with the flesh and hair remaining. They were imbedded in the ice cliffs at a remote period, and became exposed by the melting of the ice.

Mammoth Mam"moth adjective Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

Mammothrept Mam"mo·thrept noun [ Greek ...; ... grandmother + ... to nourish.] A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [ R.]

O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment.

B. Jonson.

Mammy Mam"my noun ; plural Mammies A child's name for mamma , mother.

Mamzer Mam"zer noun [ Hebrew mámz...r .] A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version).

Man Man (măn) noun ; plural Men (mĕn). [ Anglo-Saxon mann , man , monn , mon ; akin to Old Saxon , D., & Old High German man , German mann , Icelandic maðr , for mannr , Danish Mand , Swedish man , Goth. manna , Sanskrit manu , manus , and perhaps to Sanskrit man to think, and English mind . √104. Confer Minx a pert girl.] 1. A human being; -- opposed to beast .

These men went about wide, and man found they none,
But fair country, and wild beast many [ a] one.

R. of Glouc.

The king is but a man , as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

Shak. 2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown- up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.

When I became a man , I put away childish things.

I Cor. xiii. 11.

Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man .

Dryden. 3. The human race; mankind.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion.

Gen. i. 26.

The proper study of mankind is man .

Pope. 4. The male portion of the human race.

Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties.

Cowper. 5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. Shak.

This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world "This was a man !"

Shak. 6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

Like master, like man .

Old Proverb.

The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.

Blackstone. 7. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man , we 've no time to lose! 8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife .

I pronounce that they are man and wife.

Book of Com. Prayer.

every wife ought to answer for her man .

Addison. 9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man , or mon , as an indefinite pronoun.

A man can not make him laugh.

Shak.

A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship.

Addison. 10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played. » Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or man eater, man- eating, man hater or man hater, man- hating, man hunter, man- hunting, man killer, man- killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man- shaped, man slayer, man stealer, man-stealing , man thief, man worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ash man , butter man , laundry man , lumber man , milk man , fire man , show man , water man , wood man . Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man , cloth man , coal man , hardware man , wood man (as distinguished from wood man ). Man ape (Zoology) , a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla. -- Man at arms , a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed. -- Man engine , a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (Mining) , a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages. -- Man Friday , a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday. -- Man of straw , a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily. -- Man-of-the earth (Botany) , a twining plant ( Ipomœa pandurata ) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root. -- Man of war . (a) A warrior; a soldier . Shak. (b) (Nautical) See in the Vocabulary. -- To be one's own man , to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another.

Man Man transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Manned ; present participle & verbal noun Manning .] 1. 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.

See how the surly Warwick mans the wall !

Shak.

They man their boats, and all their young men arm.

Waller. 2. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify. "Theodosius having manned his soul with proper reflections." Addison. 3. To tame, as a hawk. [ R.] Shak. 4. To furnish with a servant or servants. [ Obsolete] Shak. 5. To wait on as a manservant. [ Obsolete] Shak. » In "Othello," V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain, being, perhaps: To point, to aim, or to manage. To man a yard (Nautical) , to send men upon a yard, as for furling or reefing a sail. -- To man the yards (Nautical) , to station men on the yards as a salute or mark of respect.

Man Man noun -- Man of sin (Script.) , one who is the embodiment of evil, whose coming is represented ( 2 Thess. ii. 3 ) as preceding the second coming of Christ. [ A Hebraistic expression] -- Man-stopping bullet (Mil.) , a bullet which will produce a sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge; specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand when striking the human body. Such bullets are chiefly used in wars with savage tribes.

Man-eater Man"-eat`er noun (Zoology) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti ); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh. Maned adjective Having a mane. Maned seal (Zoology) , the sea lion. -- Maned sheep (Zoology) , the aoudad.

Man-of-war Man`-of-war" n ; plural Men-of-war . A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war. Man-of-war bird (Zoology) , The frigate bird; also applied to the skua gulls, and to the wandering albatross. -- Man-of-war hawk (Zoology) , the frigate bird. -- Man-of- war's man , a sailor serving in a ship of war. -- Portuguese man-of-war (Zoology) , any species of the genus Physalia . See Physalia .

Manœuvre Ma·nœu"vre noun & v. See Maneuver .

Manable Man"a·ble adjective Marriageable. [ Obsolete]

Manace Man"ace noun & v. Same as Menace . [ Obsolete]

Manacle Man"a·cle noun [ Middle English manicle , Old French manicle , French manicle sort glove, manacle, Latin manicula a little hand, dim. of manus hand; confer Latin manica sleeve, manacle, from manus . See Manual .] A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.

Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.

Ecclus. xxi. 19.

Manacle Man"a·cle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Manacled ; present participle & verbal noun Manacling .] 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.

Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle and shackle him hand and foot ?

Arbuthnot.

Manage Man"age noun [ French manège , Italian maneggio , from maneggiare to manage, from Latin manus hand. Perhaps somewhat influenced by French ménage housekeeping, Old French mesnage , akin to English mansion . See Manual , and confer Manege .] The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege . [ Obsolete]

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.

Bacon.

Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon
Wanting the manage of unruly jades.

Shak.

The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.

Shak. » This word, in its limited sense of management of a horse, has been displaced by manege ; in its more general meaning, by management .

Manage Man"age transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Managed ; present participle & verbal noun Managing .] [ From Manage , noun ] 1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

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

Sir I. Newton.

What wars I manage , and what wreaths I gain.

Prior. 2. Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

Addison.

It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant.

Bp. Hurd. 3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action. 4. To treat with care; to husband. Dryden. 5. To bring about; to contrive. Shak. Syn. -- To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.

Manage Man"age intransitive verb To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.

Leave them to manage for thee.

Dryden.

Manageability Man`age·a·bil"i·ty noun The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.

Manageable Man"age·a·ble adjective Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness , noun -- Man"age*a*bly , adverb

Manageless Man"age·less adjective Unmanageable. [ R.]

Management Man"age·ment noun [ From Manage , v. ] 1. 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 state affairs. "The management of the voice." E. Porter. 2. Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.

He had great managements with ecclesiastics.

Addison. 3. Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.

Mark with what management their tribes divide
Some stick to you, and some to t'other side.

Dryden. 4. The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers. Syn. -- Conduct; administration; government; direction; guidance; care; charge; contrivance; intrigue.

Manager Man"a·ger noun 1. One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.

A skillful manager of the rabble.

South. 2. A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist.

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

Sir W. Temple. 3. A contriver; an intriguer. Shak.

Managerial Man`a·ge"ri·al adjective Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. " Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.

Managership Man"a·ger·ship noun The office or position of a manager.

Managery Man"age·ry noun [ Confer Old French menagerie , mesnagerie . See Manage , noun , and confer Menagerie .] 1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.

Manakin Man"a·kin noun [ Confer F. & German manakin ; probably the native name.] (Zoology) Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra , Manacus , and other genera of the family Pipridæ . They are mostly natives of Central and South America. Some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.

Manakin Man"a·kin noun A dwarf. See Manikin . Shak.

Manatee Man`a·tee" noun [ Spanish manatí , from the native name in Hayti. Confer Lamantin .] (Zoology) Any species of Trichechus , a genus of sirenians; -- called also sea cow . [ Written also manaty , manati .] » One species ( Trichechus Senegalensis ) inhabits the west coast of Africa; another ( T. Americanus ) inhabits the east coast of South America, and the West-Indies. The Florida manatee ( T. latirostris ) is by some considered a distinct species, by others it is thought to be a variety of T. Americanus . It sometimes becomes fifteen feet or more in length, and lives both in fresh and salt water. It is hunted for its oil and flesh.

Manation Ma·na"tion noun [ Latin manatio , from manare to flow.] The act of issuing or flowing out. [ Obsolete]

Manbird Man"bird` noun An aviator. [ Colloq.]