Manubrium Ma·nu"bri·um noun ; plural Latin Manubria , English Manubriums . [ Latin , handle, from manus hand.]

1. (Anat.) A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.

2. (Zoology) The proboscis of a jellyfish; -- called also hypostoma . See Illust. of Hydromedusa .

Manucode Man"u·code noun [ Javanese manukdewata the bird of the gods: confer French manucode .] (Zoology) Any bird of the genus Manucodia , of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.

Manuducent Man`u·du"cent noun One who leads by the hand; a manuductor. [ Obsolete]

Manuduction Man`u·duc"tion noun [ Latin manus hand + ductio a leading, ducere to lead: confer French manuduction .] Guidance by the hand. [ Obsolete] Glanvill. South.

Manuductor Man`u·duc"tor noun [ Latin manus the hand + ductor a leader, ducere to lead: confer French manuducteur .] (Mus.) 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. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)

Manufactory Man`u·fac"to·ry noun ; plural -ries . [ Confer Latin factorium an oil press, prop., place where something is made. See Manufacture .] 1. Manufacture. [ Obsolete]

2. A building or place where anything is manufactured; a factory.

Manufactory Man`u·fac"to·ry adjective Pertaining to manufacturing.

Manufactural Man`u·fac"tur·al adjective Of or pertaining to manufactures. [ R.]

Manufacture Man`u·fac"ture noun [ Latin manus the hand + factura a making, from facere to make: confer French manufacture . See Manual , and Fact .] 1. The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

2. Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.

Manufacture Man`u·fac"ture transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Manufactured ; present participle & verbal noun Manufacturing .] [ Confer French manufacturer .] 1. To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc.

2. To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron.

Manufacture Man`u·fac"ture intransitive verb To be employed in manufacturing something.

Manufacturer Man`u·fac"tur·er noun One who manufactures.

Manufacturing Man`u·fac"tur·ing adjective 1. Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.

2. Pertaining to manufacture; as, manufacturing projects.

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

Manumise Man"u·mise` transitive verb [ See Manumit .] To manumit. [ Obsolete] Dryden.

Manumission Man`u·mis"sion noun [ Latin manumissio : confer French manumission . See Manumit .] The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage. "Given to slaves at their manumission ." Arbuthnot.

Manumit Man`u·mit" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Manumitted ; present participle & verbal noun Manumitting .] [ Latin manumittere , manumissum ; manus the hand + mittere to send, to send off. See Manual , and Missile .] To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave. " Manumitted slaves." Hume.

Manumotive Man"u·mo`tive adjective [ Latin manus the hand + English motive .] Movable by hand. [ R.]

Manumotor Man"u·mo`tor noun [ Latin manus the hand + English motor .] A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it.

Manurable Ma·nur"a·ble adjective 1. Capable of cultivation. [ Obsolete] Sir M. Hale.

2. Capable of receiving a fertilizing substance.

Manurage Ma·nur"age noun Cultivation. [ Obsolete] Warner.

Manurance Ma·nur"ance noun Cultivation. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Manure Ma·nure" (mȧ*nūr") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Manured ; present participle & verbal noun Manuring .] [ Contr, from Old French manuvrer , manovrer , to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, French manœuvrer . See Manual , Ure , Opera , and confer Inure .] 1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [ Obsolete]

To whom we gave the strand for to manure .

Surrey.

Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved;
And with vain, outward things be no more moved.

Donne.

2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.

The blood of English shall manure the ground.

Shak.

Manure Ma·nure" (mȧ*nūr") noun Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. Dryden.

Manurement Ma·nure"ment noun [ Confer Old French manouvrement .] Cultivation. [ Obsolete] W. Wotton.

Manurer Ma·nur"er noun One who manures land.

Manurial Ma·nu"ri·al adjective Relating to manures.

Manuring Ma·nur"ing noun The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.

Manus Ma"nus noun ; plural Manus . [ Latin , the hand.] (Anat.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.

Manuscript Man"u·script adjective [ Latin manu scriptus . See Manual , and Scribe .] Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.

Manuscript Man"u·script noun [ Late Latin manuscriptum , lit., something written with the hand. See Manuscript , adjective ] 1. A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy.

2. Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript . Craik.

» The word is often abbreviated to MS ., plural MSS .

Manuscriptal Man"u·script`al adjective Manuscript. [ Obsolete]

Manutenency Man`u·ten"en·cy noun [ Latin manus hand + tenere to hold.] Maintenance. [ Obsolete] Abp. Sancroft.

Manway Man"way` noun A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through. Raymond.

Manx Manx adjective Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language.

Manx cat (Zoology) , a breed of domestic cats having a rudimentary tail, containing only about three vertebrae. -- Manx shearwater (Zoology) , an oceanic bird ( Puffinus anglorum , or P. puffinus ), called also Manx petrel , Manx puffin . It was formerly abundant in the Isle of Man.

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

Many Ma"ny noun [ See Meine , Mansion .] A retinue of servants; a household. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Many Ma"ny adjective or pron. [ It has no variation to express degrees of comparison; more and most , which are used for the comparative and superlative degrees, are from a different root.] [ Middle English mani , moni , Anglo-Saxon manig , mænig , monig ; akin to Dutch menig , Old Saxon & Old High German manag , German manch , Danish mange , Swedish månge , Goth. manags , OSlav. mnog' , Russian mnogii ; confer Icelandic margr , Prov. English mort . √103.] Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.

Thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Gen. xvii. 4.

Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.

1 Cor. i. 26.

» Many is freely prefixed to participles, forming compounds which need no special explanation; as, many- angled, many- celled, many- eyed, many- footed, many- handed, many- leaved, many- lettered, many- named, many- peopled, many- petaled, many- seeded, many- syllabled (polysyllabic), many- tongued, many- voiced, many- wived, and the like. Comparison is often expressed by many with as or so . "As many as were willing hearted . . . brought bracelets." Exod. xxxv. 22. "So many laws argue so many sins." Milton. Many stands with a singular substantive with a or an .

Many a , a large number taken distributively; each one of many. "For thy sake have I shed many a tear." Shak. "Full many a gem of purest ray serene." Gray. -- Many one , many a one; many persons. Bk. of Com. Prayer. -- The many , the majority; -- opposed to the few . See Many , noun -- Too many , too numerous; hence, too powerful; as, they are too many for us. L'Estrange.

Syn. -- Numerous; multiplied; frequent; manifold; various; divers; sundry.

Many Ma"ny noun [ Anglo-Saxon menigeo , menigo , menio , multitude; akin to German menge , Old High German managī , menigī , Goth. managei . See Many , adjective ] 1. The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.

After him the rascal many ran.

Spenser.

2. A large or considerable number.

A many of our bodies shall no doubt
Find native graves.

Shak.

Seeing a great many in rich gowns.

Addison.

It will be concluded by many that he lived like an honest man.

Fielding.

» In this sense, many is connected immediately with another substantive (without of ) to show of what the many consists; as, a good many [ of] people think so.

He is liable to a great many inconveniences.

Tillotson.

Many-minded Ma"ny-mind`ed adjective Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

Many-sided Ma"ny-sid`ed adjective 1. Having many sides; -- said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.

2. Interested in, and having an aptitude for, many unlike pursuits or objects of attention; versatile.

-- Ma"ny-sid`ed*ness , noun

Manyplies Ma"ny·plies noun [ Many , adj. + plies , plural of ply a fold.] (Anat.) 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 .

Manyways, Manywise Ma"ny·ways`, Ma"ny·wise` adverb In many different ways; variously.

Manzanilla Man`za·nil"la noun (Olive Trade) 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.

Manzanita Man`za·ni"ta noun [ Spanish , dim. of munzana an apple.] (Botany) A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos , but mostly to A. glauca and A. 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.

Maori Ma"o·ri noun ; plural Maoris (Ethnol.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand. -- adjective Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.

Map Map noun [ From French mappe , in mappemonde map of the world, from Latin mappa napkin, signal cloth; -- a Punic word. Confer Apron , Napkin , Nappe .] 1. A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.

» There are five principal kinds of projection used in making maps: the orthographic , the stereographic , the globuar , the conical , and the cylindrical , or Mercator's projection . See Projection .

2. Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map .

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

Shak.

Map lichen (Botany) , a lichen ( Lecidea geographica .) growing on stones in curious maplike figures. Dr. Prior.

Map Map transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mapped ; present participle & verbal noun Mapping .] 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.

I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly.

Shak.

Mapach Ma·pach" noun [ Mexican.] The raccoon.

Maple Ma"ple noun [ Anglo-Saxon mapolder , mapulder , mapol ; akin to Icelandic möpurr ; confer Old High German mazzaltra , mazzoltra , German massholder .] (Botany) A tree of the genus Acer , including about fifty species. A. 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 or swamp maple is A. rubrum ; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum , having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium , called also moosewood . The common maple of Europe is A. campestre , the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus , and the Norway maple is A. platanoides .

» Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.

Bird's-eye maple , Curled maple , varieties of the wood of the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is produced by the sinuous course of the fibers. -- Maple honey , Maple molasses , or Maple sirup , maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses. -- Maple sugar , sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation.

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