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MAKE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive made.
1. To compel; to constrain.
They should be made to rise at an early hour.
2. To form of materials; to fashion; to mold into shape; to cause to exist in a different form, or as a distinct thing.
He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. .
God not only made, but created; not only made the work, but the materials.
3. To create; to cause to exist; to form from nothing. God made the materials of the earth and of all worlds.
4. To compose; to constitute as parts, materials or ingredients united in a whole. These several sums make the whole amount.
The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,
MAKE but one temple for the deity.
5. To form by art.
And art with her contending, doth aspire
T'excel the natural with made delights.
6. To produce or effect, as the agent.
Call for Sampson, that he may make us sport. .
7. To produce, as the cause; to procure; to obtain. Good tillage is necessary to make good crops.
Wealth maketh many friends. .
8. To do; to perform; to execute; as, to make a journey; to make a long voyage.
9. To cause to have any quality, as by change or alteration. Wealth may make a man proud; beauty may make a woman vain; a due sense of human weakness should make us humble.
10. To bring into any state or condition; to constitute.
See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. .
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
11. To contract; to establish; as, to make friendship.
12. To keep; as, to make abode.
13. To raise to good fortune; to secure in riches or happiness; as when it is said, he is made for this world.
Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
14. To suffer.
He accuses Neptune unjustly, who makes shipwreck a second time.
15. To incur; as, to make a loss. [Improper.]
16. To commit; to do.
I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I made. [Little used.]
17. To intend or to do; to purpose to do.
Gomez, what mak'st thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? [Not used.]
We now say, what doest thou here?
18. To raise, as, profit; to gain; to collect; as, to make money in trade or by husbandry; to make an estate by steady industry.
19. To discover; to arrive in sight of; a seaman's phrase, They made the land at nine o'clock on the larboard bow, distant five leagues.
20. To reach; to arrive at; as, to make a port or harbor; a seaman's phrase.
21. To gain by advance; as, to make little way with a head wind; we made our way to the next village. This phrase often implies difficulty.
22. To provide; as, to make a dinner or entertainment.
23. To put or place; as, to make a difference between strict right and expedience.
24. To turn; to convert, as to use.
Whate'er they catch,
Their fury makes an instrument of war.
25. To represent. He is not the fool you make him, that is, as your representation exhibits him.
26. To constitute; to form. It is melancholy to think that sensual pleasure makes the happiness of a great part of mankind.
27. To induce; to cause. Self-confidence makes a man rely too much on his own strength and resources.
28. To put into a suitable or regular form for use; as, to make a bed.
29. To fabricate; to forge. He made the story himself.
30. To compose; to form and write; as, to make verses or an oration.
31. To cure; to dry and prepare for preservation; as, to make hay.
To make amends, to make good; to give adequate compensation; to replace the value or amount of loss.
To make account of, to esteem; to regard.
To make away, to kill; to destroy.
1. To make free with, to treat with freedom; to treat without ceremony.make good, to maintain, to defend.
I'll either die, or I'll make good the place.
1. To fulfill; to accomplish; as, to make good one's word, promise or engagement.
2. To make compensation for; to supply an equivalent; as, to make good a loss or damage.
To make light of, to consider as of no consequence; to treat with indifference or contempt.
They made light of it, and went their way. .
To make love,
To make suit, to court; to attempt to gain the favor or affection.
To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial.
To make much of, to treat with fondness or esteem; to consider as of great value, or as giving great pleasure.
To make of, to understand. He knows not what to make of the news, that is, he does not well understand it; he knows not how to consider or view it.
1. To produce from; to effect.
I am astonished that those who have appeared against this paper, have made so very little of it.
2. To consider; to account; to esteem.
MAKEs she no more of me than of a slave?
To make over, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate. He made over his estate in trust or in fee.
To make out, to learn; to discover; to obtain a clear understanding of. I cannot make out the meaning or sense of this difficult passage. Antiquaries are not able to make out the inscription on this medal.
1. To prove; to evince; to establish by evidence or argument. The plaintiff, not being able to make out his case, withdrew the suit.
In the passages from divines, most of the reasonings which make out both my propositions are already suggested.
2. To furnish; to find or supply. He promised to pay, but was not able to make out the money or the whole sum.
To make sure of, to consider as certain.
1. To secure to one's possession; as, to make sure of the game.
To make up, to collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package.
1. To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel.
2. To repair; as, to make up a hedge. .
3. To supply what is wanting. A dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.
4. To compose, as ingredients or parts.
Oh, he was all made up of love and charms!
The parties among us are made up of moderate whigs and presbyterians.
5. To shape; as, to make up a mass into pills.
6. To assume a particular form of features; as, to make up a face; whence, to make up a lip, is to pout.
7. To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.
8. To settle; to adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts.
9. To determine; to bring to a definite conclusion; as, to make up one's mind.
In seamen's language, to make sail, to increase the quantity of sail already extended.
To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost.
To make water, to leak.
To make words, to multiply words.
MAKE, verb intransitive To tend; to proceed; to move. He made towards home. The tiger made at the sportsman. Formerly authors used to make way, to make on, to make forth, to make about; but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make towards.
1. To contribute; to have effect. This argument makes nothing in his favor. He believes wrong to be right, and right to be wrong, when it makes for his advantage.
2. To rise; to flow toward land; as, the tide makes fast.
To make as if, to show; to appear; to carry appearance.
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. .
To make away with, to kill; to destroy.
To make for, to move towards; to direct a course towards; as, we apprehended a tempest approaching, and made for a harbor.
1. To tend to advantage; to favor. A war between commercial nations makes for the interest of neutrals.
To make against, to tend to injury. This argument makes against his cause.
To make out, to succeed; to have success at last. He made out to reconcile the contending parties.
To make up, to approach. He made up to us with boldness.
To make up for, to compensate; to supply by an equivalent.
Have you a supply of friends to make up for those who are gone?
To make up with, to settle differences; to become friends.
To make with, to concur.
MAKE, noun Structure; texture; constitution of parts in a body. It may sometimes be synonymous with shape or form, but more properly, the word signifies the manner in which the parts of a body are united; as a man of slender make or feeble make
Is our perfection of so frail a make
As every plot can undermine and shake?
MAKE, noun [Eng. match; Latin par.] A companion; a mate.
Makebate
MA'KEBATE, noun One who excites contention and quarrels.
Makeless
MA'KELESS, adjective Matchless; without a mate.
Makepeace
MA'KEPEACE, noun A peace-maker; one that reconciles persons when are variance.
Maker
MA'KER, noun The Creator.
The universal maker we may praise.
1. One that makes, forms, shapes, or molds; a manufacturer; as a maker of watches, or of jewelry; a maker of cloth.
2. A poet.
Makeweight
MA'KEWEIGHT, noun That which is thrown into a scale to make weight.
Maki
MA'KI, noun An animal of the genus Lemur.
The ring-tailed maki is of the size of a cat.
The common name of a subdivision of the Linnean genus Lemur, including the macauco, the mongooz, and the vari.
Making
MA'KING, participle present tense Forming; causing; compelling; creating; constituting.
MA'KING, noun The act of forming, causing or constituting.
1. Workmanship. This is cloth of your own making
2. Composition; structure.
3. A poem.
Mal
MAL, or MALE, as a previx, in composition, denotes ill or veil, Latin malus. [See Malady.]
Malachite
MAL'ACHITE, noun [Gr. mallows, Latin malva, soft, so names from its resembling the color of the leaf of mallows.]
An oxyd of copper, combined with carbonic acid, found in solid masses of a beautiful green color. It consists of layers, in the form of nipples or needles converging towards a common center. It takes a good polish and is often manufactured into toys.
Malacolite
MAL'ACOLITE, noun [Gr. mallows, from its color.]
Another name for diopside, a variety of pyroxene.
Malacopterygeous
MALACOPTERYG'EOUS, adjective [Gr. soft, a point or feather.]
Having bony rays of fins, not sharp or pointed at the extremity; as a fish.
Malacostomous
MALACOS'TOMOUS, adjective [Gr. soft, and mouth.]
Having soft jaws without teeth; as a fish.
Maladministration
MALADMINISTRA'TION, noun [See Mal and Administer.] Bad management of public affairs; vicious or defective conduct in administration, or the performance of official duties, particularly of executive and ministerial duties, prescribed by law; as the maladministration of a king, or of any chief magistrate.
Malady
MAL'ADY, noun [Latin malum; Eng. mellow, Latin mollis.]
1. Any sickness or disease of the human body; any distemper from impaired, defective or morbid organic functions; more particularly, a lingering or deep seated disorder or indisposition. It may be applied to any animal body, but is, I believe, rarely or never applied to plants.
The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind.
2. Defect or corruption of the heart; depravity; moral disorder or corruption of moral principles. Depravity of heart is a moral malady
3. Disorder of the understanding or mind.
Malaga
MAL'AGA, noun A species of wine imported from malaga in Spain.
Malanders
MALAN'DERS, noun A dry scab on the pastern of a horse.
Malapert
MAL'APERT, adjective [mal and pert.] Saucy; quick, with impudence; sprightly, without respect or decency; bold; forward.
Are you growing malapert?
Malapertly
MAL'APERTLY, adverb Saucily; with impudence.
Malapertness
MAL'APERTNESS, noun Sauciness; impudent pertness or forwardness; sprightliness of reply without decency.
Malapropos
MALAPROPOS, adverb malap'ropo. Unsuitably.
Malar
MA'LAR, adjective [Latin mala, the cheek.] Pertaining to the cheek.
Malate
MAL'ATE, noun [Latin malum, an apple.] A salt formed by the malic acid, the acid of apples, combined with a base.
Malaxate
MAL'AXATE, verb transitive To soften; to knead to softness.
Malaxation
MALAXA'TION, noun The act of moistening and softening; or the forming of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [Little used.]
Malconformation
MALCONFORMA'TION, noun Ill form; disproportion of parts.
Malcontent
MAL'CONTENT, noun [mal and content.] A discontented subject of government; one who murmurs at the laws and administration, or who manifests his uneasiness by overt acts, as in sedition or insurrection.
MAL'CONTENT
Malcontented
MALCONTENT'ED, adjective Discontented with the laws or the administration of government; uneasy; dissatisfied with the government.
The famous malcontent earl of Leicester.
Malcontentedly
MALCONTENT'EDLY, adverb With discontent.
Malcontentedness
MALCONTENT'EDNESS, noun Discontentedness with the government; dissatisfaction; want of attachment to the government, manifested by overt acts.
Male
MALE, adjective [Latin masculus, from mas, maris.]
1. Pertaining to the sex that procreates young, and applied to animals of all kinds; as a male child; a male beast, fish, or fowl.
2. Denoting the sex of a plant which produces the fecundating dust, or a flower or plant that bears the stamens only, without pistils.
3. Denoting the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding or female screw.
MALE, noun Among animals, one of the sex whose office is to beget young; a he-animal.
1. In botany, a plant of flower which produces stamens only, without pistils.
2. In mechanics, the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding part or female screw.
Maledicency
MALEDIC'ENCY, noun [Latin maledicentia; male and dico.]
Evil speaking; reproachful language; proneness to reproach. [Little used.]
Maledicent
MAL'EDICENT, adjective Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Little used.]
Malediction
MALEDIC'TION, noun [Latin maledictio; male, evil, and dico, to speak.]
Evil speaking; denunciation of evil; a cursing; curse or execration.
Malefaction
MALEFAC'TION, noun [Latin male, evil, and facio, to do.]
A criminal deed; a crime; an offense against the laws. [Little used.]
Malefactor
MALEFAC'TOR, noun [supra.] One who commits a crime; one guilty of violating the laws, in such a manner as to subject him to public prosecution and punishment, particularly to capital punishment; a criminal.
Malefice
MAL'EFICE, noun An evil deed; artifice; enchantment. [Not in use.]
Maleficiate
MALEFI'CIATE, verb transitive To bewitch. [Not in use.]
Maleficiation
MALEFICIA'TION, noun A bewitching. [Not in use.]
Maleficience
MALEFI'CIENCE, noun [Latin maleficientia.]
The doing of evil, harm or mischief.
Maleficient
MALEFI'CIENT, adjective Doing evil, harm or mischief.
Malengine
MALEN'GINE, noun Guile; deceit. [Not in use.]
Malet
MAL'ET, noun A little bag or budget; a portmanteau. [Not used.]
Malevolence
MALEV'OLENCE, noun [Latin malevolentia; malum, evil, and volens, volo, to will.] Ill will, personal hatred; evil disposition towards another; enmity of heart; inclination to injure others. It expresses less than malignity.
Malevolent
MALEV'OLENT, adjective Having an evil disposition towards another or others; wishing evil to others; ill disposed, or disposed to injure others. A malevolent heart rejoices in the misfortunes of others.
1. Unfavorable; unpropitious; bringing calamity.
Malevolently
MALEV'OLENTLY, adverb With ill will or enmity; with the wish or design to injure.
Malevolous
MALEV'OLOUS, adjective Malevolent. [Not in use.]
Malfeasance
MALFE'ASANCE, noun Evil doing; wrong; illegal deed.
Malformation
MALFORMA'TION, noun [mal and formation.] Ill or wrong formation; irregular or anomalous formation or structure of parts.
Malic
MA'LIC, adjective [Latin malum, an apple.] Pertaining to apples; drawn from the juice of apples; as malic acid.
Malice
MAL'ICE, noun [Latin malitia, from malus, evil.] Extreme enmity of heart, or malevolence; a disposition to injure others without cause, from mere personal gratification or from a spirit of revenge; unprovoked malignity or spite.
--Nor set down aught in malice
MAL'ICE, verb transitive To regard with extreme ill will. [Not used.]
Malicious
MALI'CIOUS, adjective Harboring ill will or enmity without provocation; malevolent in the extreme; malignant in heart.
I grant him bloody,
Sudden, malicious smacking of every sin
That has a name.
1. Proceeding from extreme hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as a malicious report.
Maliciously
MALI'CIOUSLY, adverb With malice; with extreme enmity or ill will; with deliberate intention to injure.
Maliciousness
MALI'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being malicious; extreme enmity or disposition to injure; malignity.
Malign
MALIGN, adjective mali'ne. [Latin malignus, from malus, evil. See Malady.]
1. Having a very evil disposition towards others; harboring violent hatred or enmity; malicious; as malign spirits.
2. Unfavorable; pernicious; tending to injure; as a malign aspect of planets.
3. Malignant; pernicious; as a malign ulcer.
MALIGN, verb transitive To regard with envy or malice; to treat with extreme enmity; to injure maliciously.
The people practice mischief against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods and murdering them.
1. To traduce; to defame.
MALIGN, verb intransitive To entertain malice.
Malignancy
MALIG'NANCY, noun [See Malignant.] Extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as malignancy of heart.
1. Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as the malignancy of the aspect of planets.
The malignancy of my fate might distemper yours.
2. Virulence; tendency to mortification or to a fatal issue; as the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
Malignant
MALIG'NANT, adjective [Latin malignus, maligno, from malus, evil.]
1. Malicious; having extreme malevolence or enmity; as a malignant heart.
2. Unpropitious; exerting pernicious influence; as malignant start.
3. Virulent; as a malignant ulcer.
4. Dangerous to life; as a malignant fever.
5. Extremely heinous; as the malignant nature of sin.
MALIG'NANT, noun A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions. [Not used.]
Malignantly
MALIG'NANTLY, adverb Maliciously; with extreme malevolence.
1. With pernicious influence.
Maligner
MALIGNER, noun One who regards or treats another with enmity; a traducer; a defamer.
Malignity
MALIG'NITY, noun [Latin malignitas.] Extreme enmity, or evil dispositions of heart towards another; malice without provocation, or malevolence with baseness of heart; deep rooted spite.
1. Virulence; destructive tendency; as the malignity of an ulcer or disease.
2. Extreme evilness of nature; as the malignity of fraud.
3. Extreme sinfulness; enormity or heinousness; as the malignity of sin.
Malignly
MALIGNLY, adverb With extreme ill will.
1. Unpropitiously; perniciously.
Malison
MAL'ISON, noun Malediction. [Not in use.]
Malkin
MALKIN, noun maw'kin. A mop; also, a low maid-servant.
Mall
MALL, noun maul. [Latin malleus.]
1. A large heavy wooden beetle; an instrument for driving any thing with force.
2. A blow.
MALL, noun mal. A public walk; a level shaded walk.
MALL, verb transitive maul. To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.
Mallard
MAL'LARD, noun A species of duck of the genus Anas.
Malleability
MALLEABIL'ITY, noun [from malleable.] That quality of bodies which renders them susceptible of extension by beating. It is opposed to friability or brittleness.
Malleable
MAL'LEABLE, adjective [Latin malleus. See Mall.] That may be drawn out and extended by beating; capable of extension by the hammer; a quality of metals, particularly of gold.
Malleableness
MAL'LEABLENESS, noun Malleability, which see.
Malleate
MAL'LEATE, verb transitive To hammer; to draw into a plate or leaf by beating.
Malleation
MALLEA'TION, noun The act of beating into a plate or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
Mallet
MAL'LET, noun [Latin malleus.] A wooden hammer or instrument for beating, or for driving pins; particularly used in carpentry, for driving the chisel.
Mallow
MALLOW, noun [Latin malva; Gr. soft; Eng. mellow.]
A plant of the genus Malva; so called form its emollient qualities.
Marsh-mallows, a plant of the genus Althaea.
Malmsey
MALM'SEY, noun [Latin vinum arvisium.] The name of a species of grape, and also of a kind of wine.
Malpractice
MALPRAC'TICE, noun [mal and practice.] Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules.
Malt
MALT, noun Barley steeped in water, fermented and dried in a kiln, and thus prepared for brewing into ale or beer.
MALT, verb transitive To make into malt; as, to malt barley.
MALT, verb intransitive To become malt
To house it green will make it malt worse.
MALT'-DRINK
MALT'-LIQUOR, noun A liquor prepared for drink by an infusion of malt; as beer, ale, porter, etc.
Malt-Dust
MALT'-DUST, noun The grains or remains of malt.
Malt-dust is an enricher of barren land.
MALT'-FLOOR, noun A floor for drying malt.
MALT'-HORSE, noun A horse employed in grinding malt; hence, a dull fellow.
Maltalent
MAL'TALENT, noun Ill humor. [Not in use.]
Maltha
MAL'THA, noun A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch; unctuous to the touch and exhaling a bituminous odor.
Maltman
MALTMAN
MALTRE'AT, verb transitive [mal and treat.] To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly, rudely, or with unkindness.
Maltreat
MALTRE'AT, v.t. [mal and treat.] To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly, rudely, or with unkindness.
Maltreated
MALTRE'ATED, participle passive Ill treated; abused.
Maltreating
MALTRE'ATING, participle present tense Abusing; treating unkindly.
Maltreatment
MALTRE'ATMENT, noun Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
Maltster
MALTSTER, noun A man whose occupation is to make malt.
Maltworm
MALTWORM, noun [malt and worm.] A tipler.
Malvaceous
MALVA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin malvaceus, from malva, mallows.]
Pertaining to mallows.
Malversation
MALVERSA'TION, noun [Latin male, ill, and versor, to behave.]
Evil conduct; improper or wicked behavior; mean artifices, or fraudulent tricks.
Mam
MAM
MAM'ALUKE
MAM'ELUKE, noun The military force of Egypt consisted of soldiers called Mamelukes, who were originally mercenaries, but afterwards masters of the country. Their power has been recently annihilated by the present Pashaw of Egypt.
Mamma
MAMM'A, noun [Latin mamma the breast or pap, and mother.]
A familiar word for mother, used by young children.
Mammal
MAM'MAL, noun [Latin mamma, the breast.]
In zoology, an animal that suckles its young. [See Mammifer.]
Mammalian
MAMMA'LIAN, adjective Pertaining to the mammals.
Mammalogist
MAMMAL'OGIST, noun One who treats of mammiferous animals.
Mammalogy
MAMMAL'OGY, noun [Latin mamma, breast, and discourse.]
The science or doctrine of mammiferous animals. [See Mammifer.]
Mammary
MAM'MARY, adjective [See Mamma.] Pertaining to the breasts or paps; as the mammary arteries and veins.
Mammee
MAMMEE', noun A tree of the genus Mammea, of two species, both large evergreens produced in hot climates.
Mammet
MAM'MET, noun A puppet; a figure dressed.
Mammifer
MAM'MIFER, noun [Latin mamma, the breast, and fero, to bear.]
An animal which has breasts for nourishing its young. The mammifers have a double system of circulation, red and warm blood; the fetus is nourished in the matrix by means of one or more placentas, and the young by milk secreted by the breasts.
Mammiferous
MAMMIF'EROUS, adjective [supra.] Having breasts and nourishing the young by the milk secreted by them.
Mammiform
MAM'MIFORM, adjective [Latin mamma and form.]
Having the shape or form of paps.
Mammillary
MAM'MILLARY, adjective [Latin mamilla.] Pertaining to the paps; resembling a pap; an epithet applied to two small protuberances, like nipples, found under the fore ventricles of the brain, and to a process of the temporal bone.
1. In mineralogy, applied to minerals composed of convex concretions.
Mammillated
MAM'MILLATED, adjective Having small nipples, or little globes like nipples.
Mammoc
MAM'MOC, noun A shapeless piece. [Not used.]
MAM'MOC, verb transitive To tear in pieces. [Not used.]
Mammodis
MAM'MODIS, noun Coarse, plain India muslins.
Mammon
MAM'MON, noun Riches; wealth; or the god of riches.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon .
Mammonist
MAM'MONIST, noun A person devoted to the acquisition of wealth; one whose affections are placed supremely on riches; a worldling.
Mammoth
MAM'MOTH, noun This name has been given to a hugh quadruped, now extinct, whose bones are found on both continents.
Man
MAN, noun plural men. [Heb.species, kind, image, similitude.]
1. Mankind; the human race; the whole species of human beings; beings distinguished from all other animals by the powers of reason and speech, as well as by their shape and dignified aspect. 'Os homini sublime dedit.'
And God said, Let us make man in our image, , after our likeness, and let them have dominion--.
MAN that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. .
My spirit shall not always strive with man .
I will destroy man whom I have created. .
There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man .
It is written, man shall not live by bread alone. .
There must be somewhere such a rank as man
Respecting man whatever wrong we call--
But vindicate the ways of God to man
The proper study of mankind is man
In the System of Nature, man is ranked as a distinct genus.
When opposed to woman, man sometimes denotes the male sex in general.
Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties.
2. A male individual of the human race, of adult growth or years.
The king is but a man as I am.
And the man dreams but what the boy believed.
3. A male of the human race; used often in compound words, or in the nature of an adjective; as a man-child; men-cooks; men-servants.
4. A servant, or an attendant of the male sex.
I and my man will presently go ride.
5. A word of familiar address.
We speak no treason, man
6. It sometimes bears the sense of a male adult of some uncommon qualifications; particularly, the sense of strength, vigor, bravery, virile powers, or magnanimity, as distinguished from the weakness, timidity or impotence of a boy, or from the narrow mindedness of low bred men.
I dare do all that may become a man
Will reckons he should not have been the man he is, had he not broke windows--
So in popular language, it is said, he is no man Play your part like a man He has not the spirit of a man
Thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. .
7. An individual of the human species.
In matters of equity between man and man--
Under this phraseology, females may be comprehended. So a law restraining man or every man from a particular act, comprehends women and children, if of competent age to be the subjects of law.
8. man is sometimes opposed to boy or child, and sometimes to beast.
9. One who is master of his mental powers, or who conducts himself with his usual judgment. When a person has lost his senses, or acts without his usual judgment, we say, he is not his own man
10. It is sometimes used indefinitely, without reference to a particular individual; any person; one. This is as much as a man can desire.
A man in an instant, may discover the assertion to be impossible.
This word however is always used in the singular number, referring to an individual. In this respect it does not answer to the French on, nor to the use of man by our Saxon ancestors. In Saxon, man ofsloh, signifies, they slew; man sette ut, they set or fitted out. So in German, man sagt, may be rendered, one ways, it is said, they say, or people say. So in Danish, man siger, one says, it is said, they say.
11. In popular usage, a husband.
Every wife ought to answer for her man
12. A movable piece at chess or draughts.
13. In feudal law, a vassal, a liege subject or tenant.
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.
MAN of war, a ship or war; an armed ship.
Man-Midwife
MAN-MIDWIFE, noun A man who practices obstetrics.
MAN, verb transitive To furnish with men; as, to man the lines of a fort or fortress; to man a ship or a boat; to man the yards; to man the capstan; to man a prize. It is, however, generally understood to signify, to supply with the full complement or with a sufficient number of men.
1. To guard with men.
2. To strengthen; to fortify.
Theodosius having manned his soul with proper reflections--
3. To tame a hawk. [Little used.]
4. To furnish with attendants or servants. [Little used.]
5. To point; to aim.
Man but a rush against Othello's breast,
And he retires. [Not used.]
Manacle
MAN'ACLE, noun [Latin manica; from manus, the hand.] An instrument of iron for fastening the hands; hand-cuffs; shackles. It is generally used in the plural, manacles.
MAN'ACLE, verb transitive To put on hand-cuffs or other fastening for confining the hands.
1. To shackle; to confine; to restrain the use of the limbs or natural powers.
Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle him hand and foot?
Manacled
MAN'ACLED, participle passive Hand-cuffed; shackled.
Manacling
MAN'ACLING, participle present tense Confining the hands; shackling.
Manage
MAN'AGE, verb transitive
1. To conduct; to carry on; to direct the concerns of; as, to manage a farm; to manage the affairs of a family.
What wars I manage and what wreaths I gain.
2. To train or govern, as a horse.
They vault from hunters to the managed steed.
3. To govern; to control; to make tame or tractable; as, the buffalo is too refractory to be managed.
4. To wield; to move or use in the manner desired; to have under command.
Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed.
5. To make subservient.
Antony managed him to his own views.
6. To husband; to treat with caution or sparingly.
The less he had to lose, the less he car'd
To manage lithesome life, when love was the reward.
7. To treat with caution or judgment; to govern with address.
It was much his interest to manage his protestant subjects.
MAN'AGE, verb intransitive To direct or conduct affairs; to carry on concerns or business.
Leave them to manage for thee.
MAN'AGE, noun Conduct; administration; as the manage of the state or kingdom.
1. Government; control, as of a horse, or the exercise of riding him.
2. Discipline; governance; direction.
3. Use; application or treatment.
Quicksilver will not endure the manage of the fire.
[This word is nearly obsolete in all its applications, unless in reference to horses. We now use management.]
Manageable
MAN'AGEABLE, adjective Easy to be used or directed to its proper purpose; not difficult to be moved or wielded. Heavy cannon are not very manageable
1. Governable; tractable; that may be controlled; as a manageable horse.
2. That may be made subservient to one's views or designs.
Manageableness
MAN'AGEABLENESS, noun The quality of being easily used, or directed to its proper purpose; as the manageableness of an instrument.
1. Tractableness; the quality of being susceptible of government and control; easiness to be governed.
Managed
MAN'AGED, participle passive Conducted; carried on; trained by discipline; governed; controlled; wielded.
Management
MAN'AGEMENT, noun Conduct; administration; manner of treating, directing or carrying on; as the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.
2. Cunning practice; conduct directed by art, design or prudence; contrivance.
Mark with what management their tribes divide.
3. Practice; transaction; dealing.
He had great management with ecclesiastics, in the view to be advanced to the pontificate.
4. Modulation; variation.
All directions as to the management of the voice, must be regarded as subsidiary to the expression of feeling.
Manager
MAN'AGER, noun 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.
A skilful manager of the rabble.
An artful manager that crept between--
1. A person who conducts business with economy and frugality; a good husband.
A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure.
Managery
MAN'AGERY, noun [from manage.] conduct; direction; administration.
1. Husbandry; economy; frugality.
2. Manner of using.
[Little used or obsolete in all its applications.]
Managing
MAN'AGING, participle present tense Conducting; regulating; directing; governing; wielding.
Manakin
MAN'AKIN, noun The name of a beautiful race of birds found in warm climates.
Manati
MANA'TI
MANA'TION, noun [Latin manatio, from mano, to flow.]
The act of issuing or flowing out. [Little used.]
Manation
MANA'TION, n. [L.manatio, from mano, to flow.]
The act of issuing or flowing out. [Little used.]
Manatus
MANA'TUS, noun 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.
[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.
Manchet
MAN'CHET, noun A small loaf of fine bread. [Not used.]
Manchineel
MANCHINEE'L, noun [Latin 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.
Mancipate
MAN'CIPATE, verb transitive [Latin mancipo, from manceps, mancipium; manu capio, to take with the hand.] To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Little used.]
Mancipation
MANCIPA'TION, noun Slavery; involuntary servitude. [Little used.]
Manciple
MAN'CIPLE, noun [Latin manceps; manu capio, supra.]
A steward; an undertaker; a purveyor, particularly of a college.
Mandamus
MANDA'MUS, noun [Latin mando, to command; mandamus we command. The primary sense is to send.]
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.
Mandarin
MANDARIN, noun In China, a magistrate or governor of a province; also, the court language of China.
Mandatary
MAN'DATARY
MAN'DATE, noun [Latin mando, to command.]
1. A command; an order, precept or injunction; a commission.
This dream all powerful Juno sends; I bear
Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear.
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.
Mandate
MAN'DATE, n. [L. mando, to command.] 1. A command; an order, precept or injunction; a commission. This dream all powerful Juno sends; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear.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.
Mandator
MANDA'TOR, adjective [Latin] A director.
MAN'DATORY, adjective Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
Mandatory
MAN'DATORY, noun [Latin mando, to command.]
1. A person to whom the pope has by his prerogative given a mandate or order for his benefice.
2. One to whom a command or charge is given.
3. In law, one who undertakes, without a recompense, to do some act for another in respect to the thing bailed to him.
Mandible
MAN'DIBLE, noun [Latin mando, to chew.] The jaw, the instrument of chewing; applied particularly to fowls.
Mandibular
MANDIB'ULAR, adjective Belonging to the jaw.
Mandil
MAN'DIL, noun A sort of mantle. [Not in use.]
Mandilion
MANDIL'ION, noun [supra.] A soldier's coat; a loose garment.
Mandlestone
MAN'DLESTONE, noun Kernel-stone; almond-stone, called also amygdaloid; a name given to stones or rocks which have kernels enveloped in paste.
Mandment
MANDMENT, for commandment, is not in use.
Mandolin
MAN'DOLIN, noun A cithern or harp. [Not in use.]
Mandrake
MAN'DRAKE, noun [Latin 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.
Mandrel
MAN'DREL, noun An instrument for confining in the lathe the substance to be turned.
Mandrill
MAN'DRILL, noun A species of monkey.
Manducable
MAN'DUCABLE, adjective That can be chewed; fit to be eaten.
Manducate
MAN'DUCATE, verb transitive [Latin mando.] To chew.
Manducated
MAN'DUCATED, participle passive Chewed.
Manducating
MAN'DUCATING, participle present tense Chewing; grinding with the teeth.
Manducation
MANDUCA'TION, noun The act of chewing or eating.
Mane
MANE, noun The hair growing on the upper side of the neck of a horse or other animal, usually hanging down on one side.
Maneater
MAN'EATER, noun A human being that feeds on human flesh; a cannibal; an anthropophagite.
Maned
MA'NED, adjective Having a mane.
Manege
MAN'EGE, noun A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training
horses.
Manerial
MANERIAL. [See Manorial.]
Manes
MA'NES, noun plural [Latin] The ghost, shade or soul of a deceased person; and among the ancient pagans, the infernal deities.
1. The remains of the dead.
Hail, O ye holy manes!
Maneuver
MANEU'VER, noun [Latin manus, the hand, and oeuvre, work, Latin opera.]
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.
2. Management with address or artful design.
MANEU'VER, verb intransitive 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.
1. To manage with address or art.
MANEU'VER, verb transitive To change the positions of troops or ships.
Maneuvered
MANEU'VERED, participle passive Moved in position.
Maneuvering
MANEU'VERING, participle present tense Changing the position or order for advantageous attack or defense.
Manful
MAN'FUL, adjective [man and full.] Having the spirit of a man; bold; brave; courageous.
1. Noble; honorable.
Manfully
MAN'FULLY, adverb Boldly; courageously; honorably.
Manfulness
MAN'FULNESS, noun Boldness; courageousness.
Mangaby
MAN'GABY, noun A monkey with naked eyelids; the white-eyed monkey.
Manganese
MAN'GANESE, noun 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.
Manganesian
MANGANE'SIAN, adjective Pertaining to manganese; consisting of it or partaking of its qualities.
Manganesiate
MANGANE'SIATE, noun A compound of manganesic acid, with a base.
Manganesic
MANGANE'SIC, adjective Obtained from manganese; as the manganesic acid.
[Manganic is ill formed.]
Manganesious
MANGANE'SIOUS, adjective manganesious acid is an acid with a minimum of oxygen.
Mangcorn
MANG'CORN, noun A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain. [Not used in America.]
Mange
MANGE, noun The scab or itch in cattle, dogs and other beasts.
Mangel-Wurzel
MANGEL-WURZEL, noun The root of scarcity, a plant of the beet kind.
Manger
MANGER, noun [Latin mando.]
1. A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.
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.
Manger-Board
MANGER-BOARD, noun The bulk-head on a ship's deck that separates the manger from the other part of the deck.
Manginess
MANGINESS, noun [from mangy.] Scabbiness; infection of the mange.
Mangle
MAN'GLE, verb transitive
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.
And seized with fear, forgot his mangled meat.
2. To curtail; to take by piece-meal.
MAN'GLE, noun [Latin mango.]
1. A rolling press or calendar for smoothing cloth.
2. A name of the mangrove, which see.
MAN'GLE, verb transitive To smooth cloth with a mangle; to calendar.
Mangled
MAN'GLED, participle passive Torn in cutting; smoothed with a mangle.
Mangler
MAN'GLER, noun One who tears in cutting; one who uses a mangle.
Mangling
MAN'GLING, participle present tense Lacerating in the act of cutting; tearing.
Mango
MAN'GO, noun 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.
1. A green muskmelon pickled.
Mangonel
MAN'GONEL, noun An engine formerly used for throwing stones and battering walls.
Mangonism
MAN'GONISM, noun The art of setting off to advantage.
Mangonize
MAN'GONIZE, verb transitive To polish for setting off to advantage.
Mangostan
MAN'GOSTAN
MANGOSTEE'N, noun 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.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.