MANKIND a term given to the anterior segment of the trunk, in which the head inosculates, or on which it turns. Mankind (man-kind', man'kind, or mankind), n. [Man and kind, in sense of race, stock, kin, the word being altered from older mankin, A. Sax. mancyn. See KIN.] 1. The human race; man taken collectively; man. The proper study of mankind is man. Pope. 2. The males of the human race, as distinguished from the females; the male part of the human race. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind. Lev. xviii. 22. 3. Human feelings; humanity. You whose minds are good, And have not forced all mankind from your breasts. B. Jonson. Mankind (man'kind), a. 1. Resembling man, not woman, in form or nature; unwomanly; masculine; coarse; bold: often applied by the older poets to woman in a bad sense. A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door!' Shak. 'Twas a sound knock she gave me, A plaguy mankind girl, how my brains totter! Beau. & Fl 'Terrible 2. Of virile power; ferocious. lions, many a mankind bear.' Chapman. Manks (mangks), n. and a. Same as Manx. 1. Destitute of men; Manless (man'les), a. not manned, as a boat. [Rare.]-2. Unmanly; base; cowardly; dastardly; unbecoming a man. Stuffed with manless cruelty.' Chapman. That pusillanimity and manless subjugation. Waterhouse. Manlessly+ (man'les-li), adv. In an unmanly or inhuman manner; inhumanly. 'Manlessly dragged to the Grecian fleet.' Chapman. Manlike (man'lik), a. 1. Resembling a man in form or nature. Under his forming hands a creature grew, Milton. 2. Having the qualities proper to or becoming a man, as distinguished from a woman; manly. Civil manlike exercise, which might stir up, and discipline, and ripen the strength they have. Hammond. Manliness (man'li-nes), n. The quality of being manly or of possessing the attributes of a man, especially boldness and courage; bravery; dignity. Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief Manling (man'ling), n. A little man. Manly (man'li), a. [Man and term. ly (which see)] Pertaining to or becoming a man; not boyish or womanish; firm; brave; undaunted; dignified; noble; stately. His big manly voice, Shak. He moves with manly grace. Dryden. Manly (man'li), adv. With courage like a man; manfully; courageously. "This tune goes manly.' Shak. Man-mercer (man'mêr-sér), n. One who deals by retail in cloths, &c., for male attire; a woollen draper. Man-midwife (man'mid-wif), n. A man who practises obstetrics; an accoucheur. Man-milliner (man'mil-in-èr), n. A male maker of millinery; hence, a man who busies himself with trifling occupations or embellishments. Man-minded (man'mind-ed), a. Having the mind or qualities of a man." When his man-minded offset (Queen Elizabeth) rose To chase the deer at five. Tennyson. Man-mountain (man'moun-tān), n. A man of gigantic size; a giant. Swift. Manna (man'na), n. [Generally derived from the Heb. man hu, what is it?] 1. In Scrip. a substance miraculously furnished as food for the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia. Ex. xvi. 15. What the substance was is unknown. Ehrenberg, in his Symbol Physica, affirms it to have been the saccharine substance called Mount Sinai manna yielded by the shrub Tamariscus mannifera of that region, a species of tamarisk. Hence-2. Divine or spiritual food. 3. In phar. the sweet concrete juice which is obtained by incisions made in the stem of a 115 species of ash, Fraxinus Ornus, a native of Sicily, Calabria, and other parts of the south of Europe. It is either naturally concreted or exsiccated and purified by art. At the present day the manna of commerce is collected exclusively in Sicily, where the manna-ash is cultivated for the purpose in regular plantations, called frasinetti. The best manna is in oblong pieces or flakes of a whitish or pale yellow colour, light, friable, and somewhat transparent. It has a slight peculiar odour, and a sweetish taste mixed with a slight degree of bitterness, and is employed as a gentle laxative for children or persons of weak habits. It is, however, generally used as an adjunct to other more active medicines. It consists principally of a crystallizable sugar named mannite, and an uncrystallizable sugar which possesses the sweet and purgative properties. Other sweetish secretions exuded by some other plants growing in warm and dry climates, as the Eucalyptus mannifera of Australia, the Tamaris mannifera or gallica of Arabia and Syria, are considered to be kinds of manna. Small quantities of manna, known under the name of Briançon manna, are obtained from the common larch (Larix europaea). Manna-ash (man'na-ash), n. Fraxinus Ornus. See MANNA. Manna-croup (man'na-kröp), n. 1. A granular preparation of wheat-flour deprived of It consists of the large hard grains bran. of wheat flour retained in the boltingmachine after the fine flour has been passed through its meshes. The French call it semoule or semouline, and the finest kind of it is said to be made in the south of France. It is used for making soups, puddings, &c.-2. The prepared seeds of a grass, Glyceria fluitans. Manner (man'nėr), n. [O.E. manere, from Fr. manière, manner, from 0. Fr. manier, of or belonging to the hand, from L. manus, the hand-properly, the method of handling a thing.] 1. The mode in which anything is done; the way of performing or effecting anything; mode of action; method; style; form; fashion. Find thou the manner, and the means prepare. Dryden. The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful, manner. Atterbury. 2. Especially, customary or characteristic mode of acting, conducting one's self, and the like; peculiar or habitual way or carriage; habitual style, bearing, or conduct. Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them. Acts xvii. 2. It can hardly be imagined how great a difference was in the humour, disposition, and manner of the army under Essex, and the other under Waller. Clarendon, Air and manner are more expressive than words. Richardson. Specifically, (a) the characteristic style of writing or thought in an author, or the distinctive peculiarity of an artist. See extract under MANNERISM. (b) pl. General way of life; customary conduct; morals; habits. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Pope. (c) pl. Carriage or behaviour, considered as decorous or indecorous, polite or unpolite, pleasing or displeasing; especially, ceremonious behaviour; decent and respectful deportment; civility. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Swift. Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding Middleton. manners. Shall we, in our applications to the great God, take that to be religion, which the common reason of mankind will not allow to be manners! South. 3. Sort; kind: in this use having often the sense of a plural = sorts, kinds. Ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs. Luke xi. 42. Blessed are ye, when men ... shall say all manner of evil against you falsely. Mat. v. II. -In a manner, in a certain degree, measure, or sense; to a certain extent; as, it is in a manner done already. The bread is in a manner common. 1 Sam. xxi. 5. Augustinus does in a manner confess the charge. Baker. SYN. Form, method, custom, habit, fashion, air, look, mien, aspect, appearance. Manner (man'ėr), n. A thing stolen and found in the hands of the thief; mainour. Mannered (man'nèrd), a. 1. Having or possessed of manners, carriage, or conduct. Beseeching you To give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. MANEUVRE 2. In the fine arts, exhibiting the peculiar style of an author or artist, more particularly in its objectionable form. 'Hence inspiration plans his mannered lays.' Grainger. • Mannerism (man'nér-izm), n. Adherence to the same manner; uniformity of manner, especially a tasteless uniformity, without freedom or variety; excessive adherence to a characteristic mode or manner of action or treatment. Mannerism is pardonable, and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural. Few readers, for example, would be willing to part with the mannerism of Milton or of Burke. But a mannerism which does not sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle, and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is always offensive. And such is the mannerism of Johnson. Macaulay. Mannerist (man'nèr-ist), n. One addicted to mannerism; one who in action or treatment adheres to one unvaried manner, whether natural or copied: said especially of writers and artists. See extract under MANNERISM. The Mannerliness (man'nêr-li-nes), n. quality of being mannerly, or civil and respectful in behaviour; civility; complais ance. Shak Mannerly (man'nér-li), a. Showing good manners; correct in deportment; civil; respectful; complaisant; not rude or vulgar. What thou think'st meet and is most mannerly. Mannerly (man'nėr-li), adv. With good manners or civility; respectfully; without rudeness. Better it is to lap one's pottage like a dog, than to eat it mannerly with a spoon of the devil's giving. Fuller. Manners-bit (man'nèrz-bit), n. A portion of a dish left by guests that the host may not feel himself reproached for insufficient preparation. [Local.] Mannheim Gold (man'him gōld), n. [From Mannheim, in Baden, where it was originally made.] A brass containing 80 parts copper and 20 parts zinc, used by jewellers to imitate gold. Mannikin (man'i-kin), n. Same as Manikin. Beattie. Manning+ (manʼing), n. A day's work of a man. Mannish (man'ish), a. 1. Having the nature of man; proper to the human species; human. Gower. [Rare.]-2. Characteristic of or resembling a man as distinguished from a woman; hence, as applied to a woman, masculine; unwomanly. A woman impudent and mannish grown.' Shak. She's as much too mannish as he too womanish. Beau. & Fl 3. Simulating manhood; having the air or appearance of manliness without the reality. [Rare.] We'll have a swashing and a martial outside As many other mannish cowards have. Shak. 4. Characteristic of the age of manhood. "Though now our voices have got the mannish crack.' Shak. Mannishly (man'ish-li), adv. In a mannish manner; boldly. Mannishness (man'ish-nes), n. The state or quality of being mannish; boldness; masculineness. The painted faces, the mannishness, and monstrous disguisedness of one sex. Bp. Hall. Mannite (man'it), n. (C&H1406) A peculiar variety of sugar obtained from manna, of which it forms the greater part. When manna is dissolved in boiling alcohol, the solution as it cools deposits the mannite in flaky and circular crystals, often arranged in concentric groups. It is also found in the juices which exude from several species of cherry and apple, in various mushrooms, in some roots, such as that of celery, in the fermented juice of beet-root, carrots, onions, &c., and also in some sea-weeds, such as Laminaria saccharina. It has a faint sweetish taste. Called also Mushroomsugar. Manœuvre (ma-nö'ver or ma-nü'vèr), n. [Fr. manœuvre-main, L. manus, the hand, and œuvre, L. opera, work.] 1. A regulated, dexterous movement, particularly in an army or navy; any evolution, movement, or change of position among companies, battalions, regiments, ships, &c., for the purpose of distributing the forces in the best manner to meet the enemy. The English commander wore close round upon the enemy, and actually separated their line, placing the central ships of the French between two fires. This bold and masterly manœuvre proved decisive. Belsham. MANOEUVRE 2. Management with address or artful design; an adroit procedure; intrigue; stratagem. To make them the principal, not the secondary theatre of their manauvres for securing a determined majority in Parliament. Burke. 3. A silly affected trick of manner to attract notice; as, he is full of manoeuvres. [Scotch.] Manœuvre (ma-nö'ver or ma-nù'ver), v.i. pret. & pp. manœuvred; ppr. manœuvring. 1. To perform manœuvres; to move or change positions among troops or ships for the purpose of advantageous attack or defence, or in military exercise for the purpose of discipline.-2. To manage with address or art; to employ intrigue or stratagem to effect a purpose. Manoeuvre (ma-nö'ver or ma-nü'vėr), v.t. To change the position of, as troops or ships; to make to perform evolutions. Sir Geo. Rodney . now manoeuvred the fleet with such skill, as to gain the wind of the enemy during the night and entirely to proclude their retreat. Belsham. Manoeuvrer (ma-nö'ver-êr or ma-nu vérér), n. One who manœuvres. Man-of-straw (man'ov-strą), n. MAN. Man-of-war (man'ov-war), n. See under An armed ship; a government vessel, employed for the purposes of war.-Man-of-war bird. Same as Frigate-bird (which see).-Portuguese man-of-war, a sailor's name for the Physalia pelagica or atlantica. See PHYSALIA. Man-of-war's-man (man-ov-warz'man), n. A seaman belonging to a ship-of-war. Manometer, Manoscope (ma-nom'et-ér, man'o-sköp), n. [Gr. manos, rare, not dense, and metron, measure, skopeo, to view.] An instrument to measure or show the alterations in the rarity or density of the air, or to measure the rarity of any gas. As, however, the rarity of a gas is proportional to its elastic force, so long as its temperature and chemical composition remain unchanged, such instruments as measure the elastic force of gases or steam are also properly termed manometers. They are variously constructed. Manometric, Manometrical (man-ō-met'rik, man-o-met'rik-al), a. Pertaining to the manometer; made by the manometer; as, manometric observations. Manor (man'or), n. [0.Fr. manoir, maneir, maner, L. L. manerium, a dwelling-place, a mansion, from L. maneo, to stay, to dwell.] 1. Dwelling; habitation. Chaucer.-2. In law, a lordship or barony held by a lord and subject to the jurisdiction of a court-baron held by him; the jurisdiction appertaining to such a court. Manor was originally a district of ground held by a lord or great personage who kept to himself such parts of it as were necessary for his own use, which were called terræ dominicales, or demesne lands, and distributed the rest to freehold tenants. ... Manors were also called baronies, as they still are lordships, and each baron or lord was empowered to hold a domestic court called the court baron for redressing misdemeanours and nuisances within the manor, and for settling disputes of property among the tenants. Moxley & Whitely. 3. In American law, a tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a fee-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes perform certain stipulated services. Burrill. Man-orchis (man-or'kis), n. [From a fancied resemblance between its lip and the body of a man hung by the head.] A plant, Aceras anthropophora, nat. order Orchidaceæ, a greenish-flowered orchid which grows in meadows and pastures in the south of England. The genus is distinguished from orchis by the absence of a spur, but contains no species of importance. Manor-house, Manor-seat (man'or-hous, man'or-sēt), n. The house or mansion belonging to a manor. Manorial, Manerialt (ma-no'ri-al, ma-nēri-al), a. Pertaining to a manor. They have no civil liberty; their children belong not to them, but to their manorial lord. W. Tooke. Manor-seat, n. See MANOR-HOUSE. Manoscope, n. See MANOMETER. Manoscopy (ma-nosko-pi), n. [Gr. manos, thin, and skopeo, to examine.] That branch of physics which concerns itself with the determination of the density of vapours and gases. Manovery (ma-nō'vèr-i), n. In law, a device or manoeuvring to catch game illegally. Manpleaser (man'plēz-ér), n. One who pleases men, or who exhibits servility to gain the favour of men. Man-queller † (man'kwel-èr), n. A mankiller; a manslayer; a murderer. 116 Wilt thou kill God's officers and the king's? O thou honey-seed (homicide) rogue! thou art a honeyseed; a man-queller, and a woman-queller. Shak. Man-rent, Manred (man'rent, man'red), n. [Man-rent is a corruption of manred, Ó. E. manrede, homage; from man, and term. red, rede (as in kindred); it thus corresponds to homage, from homo, a man.] In Scots law, personal service or attendance. It was the token of a species of bondage, whereby free persons became bondmen, or followers of those who were their patrons or defenders. Man-rope (manʼrōp), n. One of the ropes suspended from stanchions on each side of a gangway used in ascending and descending a ship's side, hatchways, &c. Mansard Roof (man'sard röf), n. [From François Mansard, a French architect, the inventor, who died in 1666.] A roof formed A, Tie-beam. B, Collar-beam. CC, Rafters. with an upper and under set of rafters on each side, the under set approaching more nearly to the perpendicular than the upper. Called also Curb-roof. Manse (mans), n. [Norm. manse, a farm with a house attached; LL. mansus, mansum, a residence, from L. maneo, mansum, to stay, to dwell.] 1. A house or habitation with or without land; particularly, a parsonage house.-2. In Scotland, properly the dwelling-house of a parochial clergyman, the ground allotted to him being termed his glebe; hence, the dwelling-house reserved for the minister of any Presbyterian church. -Capital manse,t a manor-house or lord's court. This lady died at her capital manse at Fencot near Bicester in 1111. T. Warton. Manservant (man'sèr-vant), n. A male ser vant. Mansion (man'shon), n. [L. mansio, mansionis, from maneo, to dwell.] 1. Any place of residence; a house, especially a house of considerable size and pretension; a habitation; an abode. In my Father's house are many mansions. Thy mansion wants thee, Adam. These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Denham. 2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor-house. Mansion (man'shon), v.i. To dwell; to reside. [Rare.] Visible as the clouds of heaven, and other meteors; as also the rest of the creatures mansioning therein. Mede. Mansionary (man'shon-a-ri), a. Resident; residentiary; as, mansionary canons. Wright. Mansion-house (man'shon-hous), n. The house in which one resides; an inhabited house; a manor-house. (A burglary) must be, according to Sir Edward Coke's definition, in a mansion-house, and therefore to account for the reason why breaking open a church is burglary, he quaintly observes that it is domus mansionalis Dei. Blackstone. -The Mansion-house, the official residence of the Lord-mayor of London. Mansionry (man'shon-ri), n. Practice of building places of abode." [Rare.] The temple-haunting martlet does approve, Manslaughter (man'sla-tér), n. 1. The 2. In law, the unlawful killing of a man without malice, express or implied. This may be voluntary, upon a sudden heat or excitement of anger; or involuntary, but in the commission of some unlawful act. Manslaughter differs from murder in not proceeding from malice prepense or deliberate, which is essential to constitute murder. It differs from excusable homicide, being done in consequence of some unlawful act, MANTILLA whereas excusable homicide happens in consequence of misadventure. Manslayer (man'slā-èr), n. One that has slain a human being. Cities of refuge for the manslayer.' Num. xxxv. 6. Manstealer (man'stel-ér), n. One who steals human beings, generally for the purpose of selling them as slaves. For liars, for manstealers.' 1 Tim. i. 10. Manstealing (man'stel-ing), n. The act of stealing a human being to sell into slavery. Man-sty (man'sti), n. A sty or dwelling unfit for human habitation; a filthy dwelling-place. The landlord who, as too many do, neglects his cottages till they become man-sties, to breed pauperism and disease. Kingsley. Mansuete (man'swēt), a. [L. mansuetus, tame-manus, the hand, and suesco, suetum, to become accustomed.] Tame; gentle; not wild or ferocious. 'Domestic and mansuete birds.' Ray. [Rare.] Mansuetude (man'swē-tüd), n. [L. mansuetudo, from mansuetus. See MANSUETE.] Tameness; mildness; gentleness. Herbert. [Rare.] Manswear (manʼswār), v.i. swear. Same as Main Manteau (mañ-tō), n. pl. Manteaus or Manteaux (man-tōz). [Fr.] A mantle; a cloak. The yellow manteaus of the bride.' Hudibras. Mantel (man'tel), n. [0. Fr. mantel, Fr. manteau. (See MANTLE.) Though mantel and mantle are really the same word, they are differently spelled to mark the different senses of the two forms.] The ornamental work above a fireplace; especially, a narrow shelf or slab chiefly used to support ornaments; a mantel-piece; a mantel-shelf. Mantelet, Mantlet (man'tel-et, mantlet), n. [Dim. of mantle.] 1. A small cloak worn by women; also, a wide and short cloak with which knights formerly covered their shields.-2. In fort. a kind of movable parapet or penthouse, made of planks nailed one over another to the height of almost 6 feet, cased with tin and set on wheels. In a siege this is driven before pioneers to protect them from the enemy's small shot. Mantelinet (man'tel-in), n. A little mantle used by knights at tournaments. Mantellia (man-tel'i-a), n. [In honour of Dr. Mantell.] A genus of fossil cycadiform plants, chiefly found in the oolite of the Isle of Portland. The stem is cylindrical and covered with transverse impressions of leaf bases. The internal structure resembles Cycas. Mantel-piece (man'tel-pēs), n. Popularly, the same as mantel or mantel-shelf. In arch. distinguished as the horizontal decoration in front of the mantel-tree, supported by the jambs of a chimney-piece, and itself supporting the mantel-shelf. Mantel-shelf (man'tel-shelf), n. The shelf or horizontal slab of a mantel. Mantel-tree (man'tel-trē), n. In arch. a beam behind the mantel-piece serving as a lintel to a fireplace, sometimes replaced by a brick arch, to which the name is also given. Mantic (man'tik), a. [Gr. mantikos, from mantis, a prophet.] Relating to prophecy or divination, or to one supposed to be inspired; prophetic. Mantichor, Manticor, n. See MANTIGER. Mantidæ (man'ti-dē), n. pl. A family of orthopterous insects, named from the genus Mantis. Mantiger (man'ti-jér), rather Mantichor, Manticor (man'ti-kor), n. [L. mantichora, Gr. mantichōras, martichoōras, a fabulous Indian beast with a human face, a lion's body, and a scorpion's tail, from Per. mardkhora, man-eater-mard, man, and khaur, an eater.] 1. In her. a monster with the face of a man, the body of a lion or tiger, long spiral horns, and the tail of a scorpion. 2. A large monkey or baboon. Arbuthnot. Mantilla (man-til'la), n. [Sp.; same origin as mantle (which see).] 1. A hood; a woman's head-covering, which falls down upon the shoulders and may be used as a veil: worn in Spain and the Spanish colonies. - 2. A light cloak or covering thrown over the dress of a lady. MANTIS Mantis (man'tis), n. (Gr., a kind of locust, with long thin fore-legs, which are constantly in motion.] A genus of orthopterous insects, remarkable for their grotesque forms. They frequent trees and plants, and the forms and colours of their bodies and wings are so like the leaves and twigs which surround them as to give them remarkable power to elude observation. The Praying-mantis (Mantis religiosa). M. religiosa, or praying-mantis, has received its name from the peculiar position of the anterior pair of legs, resembling that of a person's hands at prayer. In their habits they are very voracious, killing insects and cutting them to pieces. They are natives chiefly of tropical regions, but are also found in France, Spain, and the warmer parts of Europe. Mantis-crab (manʼtis-krab), n. A name given to crustacea of the genus Squilla, from the second pair of jaw-feet being very large, and formed very like the fore-legs of insects of the genus Mantis. Mantispa (man-tis'pa), n. A genus of neuropterous insects of small size, and widely dispersed. They chiefly reside upon trees. Their fore-legs are formed like those in the genus Mantis. Mantispida (man-tis'pi-dē), n. pl. A family of neuropterous insects, of which the genus Mantispa is the type. See MANTISPA. Mantissa (man-tis'a), n. [L., addition, increase, a make-weight-an Etruscan word.] A name sometimes given to the decimal part of a logarithm as connected with the integral part or characteristic. Thus in the logarithm of 900-2-95424 the characteristic is 2, and the mantissa is 95424. Mantis-shrimp (man'tis-shrimp), n. Caprella linearis, a crustacean so-called from its resemblance to the mantis insect. Mantle (man'tl), n. [A. Sax. mantel, mentel, O. Fr. mantel, Fr. manteau, It. mantello, G. D. Dan. and Sw. mantel, all from L mantellum or mantelum, a mantle.] 1. A kind of cloak or loose garment to be worn over other garments. The herald and children are clothed with mantles of satin. Bacon. Hence-2. Fig. a cover; a covering; anything that conceals. Well covered with the night's black mantle. Shak. Their actions were disguised with mantles. Hayward. 3. In her. the name given to the cloak or mantle which accompanies and is represented behind the escutcheon.-4. In zool. (a) the external fold of the skin in most molluscs, forming a cloak in which the viscera are protected. (b) Any free outer membrane. 5. In arch. the same as Mantel (which see).-Lady's mantle. See LADY'SMANTLE Mantle (man'tl), v. t. pret. & pp. mantled; ppr. mantling. To cloak; to cover; to disguise; to obscure. So their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Shak. The rosy veils Mantling the east, by Aurora's peering hand Were lifted from the water's breast, Keats. Mantle (man'tl), v.i. 1. To be expanded or spread out like a mantle; to serve as a covering. The swan with arched neck, He gave the mantling vine to grow, Fenton. 2. In falconry, to stretch out one wing after the leg, as a hawk, by way of relief; to spread out the wings for ease: used figuratively in the following extract: My frail fancy fed with full delight Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. 3. To become covered with a coating, as a Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. Shak. And the brain dances to the mantling bowl. Pope. The whole sky (at sunset) from the zenith to the 117 horizon becomes one molten mantling sea of colour and fire. Ruskin. Mantle-piece, Mantel-shelf (man'tl-pēs, man'tl-shelf), n. Same as Mantel-piece. See MANTEL. Mantler (mant'lêr), n. One wearing a mantle; in the extract, one whose only clothing is a mantle. In Antwerp they pictured the Queen of Bohemia like a poor Irish mantler with her hair hanging about her ears and her child at her back. A. Wilson (1655). Mantlet, n. See MANTELET. Mantle-tree (man'tl-trē), n. Same as Mantel-tree. A Mantling (mant'ling), n. Same as Mantle, 3. Manto (man'to), n. A mantle; a cloak. manto or black coole (cowl).' Sir P. Rycaut. Mantologist (man-tol'o-jist), n. One skilled in mantology or divination; a diviner; a prophet. [Rare.] Mantology (man-tol'o-ji), n. [Gr. manteia, divination, and logos, discourse.] The act or art of divination or prophesying. [Rare.] Manton (man'ton), n. The name given to the fowling-pieces made by the late Mr. Joseph Manton of London, a much renowned maker. Often called Joe Manton. Mantra (man'tra), n. In the East Indies, a charm, incantation, prayer, invocation. Man-trap (man'trap), n. An engine for catching trespassers. It is now unlawful, unless set in a dwelling-house between sunset and sunrise. Mantua (man'tü-a), n. [Either a corruption of Fr. manteau, a mantle, or from Mantua, in Italy. In support of the latter, comp. milliner, from Milan.] A lady's gown. 'A new mantua of genuine French silk.' Sir W. Scott. Mantua-maker (man'tū-a-māk-ér), n. One who makes dresses for females; a dressmaker. By profession a mantua-maker; I am employed Spectator. by the most fashionable ladies. Mantuan (man'tu-an), a. Belonging to the town of Mantua in Italy. Mantuan (man'tū-an), n. habitant of Mantua. A native or in Manty (man'ti), n. A mantle; a gown. 'My cousin's silk manty, and her gowd watch.' Sir W. Scott. [Scotch.] Manual (man'ū-al), a. [L. manualis, pertaining to the hand, from manus, the hand. 1. Performed by the hand; as, manual labour or operation.-2. Used or made by the hand; as, a deed under the king's sign manual. - Manual alphabet, the letters made by the fingers and hand, used by the deaf and dumb in communicating their ideas. See DEAFNESS.-Manual exercise in the military art, the exercise by which soldiers are taught to handle their muskets and other arms. Manual (man'u-al), n. [See the adjective.] 1. A small book, such as may be carried in the hand or conveniently handled; as, a manual of laws.-2. The service-book of the Romish Church.-3. The key-board of an organ, the range of keys played by the hand, as distinguished from the pedals, those played by the feet. An artificer; Manualist (man'ū-al-ist), n. a workman. [Rare.] Manually (man'ü-al-li), adv. By hand. Manuary (man'u-a-ri), a. [L. manuarius, from manus, the hand.] Done by the hand; manual. "The exquisiteness of manuary skill.' Bp. Hall. [Rare.] Manubial + (ma-nü'bi-al), a. [L. manubialis, from manubia, money obtained from the sale of booty, booty, from manus, the hand.] Belonging to spoils; taken in war.-Manubial column, a column adorned with trophies and spoils. Manubrial (ma-nú'bri-al), a. In anat. pertaining to the manubrium; formed like the manubrium. Manubrium (ma-nū′bri-um), n. [L., a handle, from manus, the hand.] 1. A haft or handle. 2. In anat. the upper bone of the sternum, so called from its handle shape. 3. In zool. the polypite which is suspended from the roof of the swimming-bell of a medusa, or from the gonocalyx of a medusiform gonophore among the Hydrozoa. Manucaptor (man-u-kap'tér), n. [L. manus, the hand, and capio, to take.] In law, one who stands bail for another. Manuducent+ (man-ü-dü'sent), n. [L.manus, the hand, and duco, to lead.] One who leads by the hand; a manuductor. Manuduction (man-u-duk'shon), n. [L.L. manuductio, manuductionis-L. manus, the hand, and ductio, a leading, from duco, to MANURE lead.] Guidance by the hand; a leading; a guiding. South. [Rare.] Manuductor (man-u-dukter), n. [L. manus, hand, and ductor, a leader.] 1. An officer in the ancient Church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, who beat time, and regulated the music.-2. A conductor; a guide. 'Love be your manuductor.' Jordan. Manufactory (man-u-fak'to-ri), n. [See MANUFACTURE.] 1. The practice of manufacturing; manufactures. 'To give ease and encouragement to manufactory at home.' Bolingbroke.-2. A building in which goods are manufactured; a factory. Manufactory† (man-u-fak'to-ri), a. Of or belonging to manufacturing; employed in manufacturing; as, a manufactory operation. Swift. Manufactural (man-ũ-fak'tür-al), a. Pertaining or relating to manufactures. 'Manufactural demand." W. Taylor. Manufacture (man-u-fak'tür), n. [L. manus, the hand, and factura, a making, from facio, to make. ] 1. The operation of making wares of any kind, as cloth, paper, books, and whatever is used by man; the operation of reducing raw materials of any kind into a form suitable for use, by more or less complicated operations.-2. Anything made from raw materials. The peasants are clothed in a coarse kind of canvas, the manufacture of the country. Addison. Manufacture (man-u-fak'tür), v.t. pret. & pp. manufactured; ppr. manufacturing. 1. To make or fabricate from raw materials, and work into forms convenient for use, especially by more or less complicated processes; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, or glass.-2. To work up into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron. Manufacture (man-u-fak'tür), v.i. To be occupied in manufactures; as, those who manufacture are supported by those who use their goods. Manufacturer (man-u-fak'tūr-ėr), n. One who manufactures; one who employs workmen for manufacturing; the owner of a manufactory. Manufacturing (man-u-fak'tür-ing), pp. and a. 1. Employed in making goods; as, a manufacturing house, company, establishment, or estate.-2. Concerning or pertaining to manufactures or manufacturers; as, manufacturing interests. Manumiset (man'ū-mīz), v.t. To release from slavery; to manumit. And slaves now manumised on their dead master wait. Dryden. Manumission (man-u-mi’shon), n. [L. manumissio. See MANUMIT.] The act of liberating a slave from bondage and giving him freedom; emancipation. Manumit (man-u-mit'), v. t. pret. & pp. manumitted; ppr. manumitting. [L. manumitto-manus, hand, and mitto, to send.] To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a 'Barons slave; to emancipate. who manumitted their vassals.' Warton. Manumotive (man'ū-mō-tiv), a. [L. manus, the hand, and moveo, motum, to move.] Movable by hand. [Rare.] Manumotor (man'u-mō-ter), n. A small wheel-carriage so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it in any direction; a carriage for exercise. Manurable (ma-nur'a-bl),a. [From manure.] 1. That may be cultivated. This book (Doomsday) in effect gives an account not only of the manurable lands in every manor, town, or vil, but also of the number and natures of their several inhabitants. Sir M. Hale. 2. That may be manured or enriched by Manurance + (ma-nūr'ans), n. Spenser. Cultivation. Cultivation. Manure (ma-nür'), v. t. pret. & pp. manured; ppr. manuring. [Originally to work by manual labour or by the hand, and the same word as manœuvre. See MANOEUVRE.] 1. To manage. Wherefore generally to speak of the commonwealth or policie of England, it is governed, administered, and manured by three sorts of persons. Sir T. Smith. 2. To cultivate by manual labour; to till; to develop by culture. "The manuring hand of the tiller.' Milton. Nor could they have slid into those brutish immoralities of life had they duly manured those first practical notions and dictates of right reason which the nature of man is originally furnished with. South. MANURE 3. To enrich, as soils, with fertilizing substances, as dung, guano, ashes, lime, fish, or any vegetable or animal substance; to supply with manure; as, to manure a field; to manure a crop. Addison. The corps of half her senate Manure the fields of Thessaly. Manure (ma-nur), n. [From the verb.] Any matter or substance added to the soil with the view of fertilizing it, or of accelerating vegetation and increasing the production of the crops; every substance which is used to improve the natural soil, or to restore to it the fertility which is diminished by the crops annually carried away. Animal, vegetable, and mineral substances are used for this purpose. Animal substances employed as manures comprehend the putrefying carcasses of animals, ground bones, blood, the excrements of animals, as the dung of horses, cattle, sheep, poultry, &c.; urine, guano (the decomposed excrement of aquatic birds); the scrapings of leather, horn, and the refuse of the shambles; the hair or wool of animals. Liquid manure, consisting of town sewage, the drainings of dung-heaps, stables, and cow-houses, is largely employed in many districts. Although farmers generally prefer to absorb the liquid excrements of their cattle by means of straw, yet sometimes more is produced than can be absorbed. In this case it is collected in tanks and distributed, sometimes from a large barrel drawn by a horse, over the fields, sometimes by a force-pump and hose, and sometimes by simple gravitation. The liquid manure of some large cities, as Edinburgh, is thus utilized, and increasing attention is being paid to this use of it, both from sanitary motives and its high value as a fertilizer. It is used chiefly to promote the growth of grass. Almost every kind of vegetable substance, in one state or another, is used as manure. The principal mineral substances employed as manures are lime and other alkaline substances, chalk, sand, clay, marl, various sulphates, phosphates, nitrates, &c. Manurement (ma-nur'ment), n. tion; improvement. The manurement of wits.' Wotton. [Rare.] Manurer (ma-nur'èr), n. One that manures lands. Cultiva Manurial (ma-nu'ri-al), a. Of or pertaining to manures. 'The manurial value.' S. W. Johnson. Manuscript (man'u-skript), n. [L. manu scriptum, written with the hand-manus, the hand, and scribo, scriptum, to write.] A book or paper written with the hand or pen; a writing of any kind, in contradistinction to what is printed. Often contracted to MS., pl. MSS. Manuscript (man'u-skript), a. Written with the hand; not printed; as, manuscript matter. Manutenency (man-u-ten'en-si), n. Main tenance. Abp. Sancroft. [Rare and obsolete.] Man-worship (man'wer-ship), n. The worship of a man; undue reverence or extreme adulation and obsequiousness paid to a man. Manworthy (man'wer-THI), a. Worthy of a man; becoming a man. 'Where it is in advance to a better and more manworthy order of things. Coleridge. [Rare.] Manx (mangks), n. 1. The native language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man. It belongs to the Gadhelic branch of the Celtic tongues, and is thus closely allied to the Irish and Gaelic.-2. Used as a plural. Natives or inhabitants of the Isle of Man. Written also Manks. Manx (mangks), a. Of or belonging to the Isle of Man or its language. Written also Manks. Many (men'i), a. [A. Sax. manig, manig, menig, monig, Goth. manags, D. menig, Dan. mange, O.H.G. manag, G. manch, many. In A. Sax. manig was used as an adjective (like G. manch) with both singulars and plurals; as, manig burh, many a city; rinc manig, many a man; manige men, many men. It was not till the thirteenth century that the indefinite article was used between it and the noun, as in 'many a man.', Grimm explains the word as derived from man, G. mann, and the word may have originally meant any man or a number of men. Another supposition is that it contains a nasalized form of the root mag, mah, seen in may, main, L. magnus, &c.] Numerous; comprising a great number of individuals. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. 118 Followed by an or a before a noun in the singular number it has more of a distributive or emphatic force than with a plural noun. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Gray. -The many, the great majority of people; the crowd; the common herd. The toiling many and the resting few.' Wordsworth. The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven. South. -So many, (a) the same number of; as, packed together like so many herrings. Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell. Dickens. (b) A certain number indefinitely; as, he took so many of these, so many of those, and so many of the others.-Too many, too strong; too powerful; too able; as, they are too many for us; we may also say he is too many, or one too many, for us. [Colloq.] Many is prefixed to a great number of adjectives, forming compounds which explain themselves; as, many-coloured, many-cornered, many-eyed, &c.-SYN. Numerous, multiplied, frequent, manifold, various, divers, sundry. Many (men'i), n. [A. Sax. mænigeo, manigu, a crowd, from manig, many; Goth. managei.] 1. A multitude. O thou fond many.' Shak. "The rank-scented many.' Shak.-2. A considerable number: preceded by the indefinite article. Like a many of these lisping hawthorn buds. Shak. [The phrase a many (as well as a pretty many) has become obsolete in good usage, though it may be still heard among the uneducated; yet a good many and a great many are still in common use.] Many (men'i), n. [See MEINY.] A retinue of servants; household. Fairfax. The kings before their many rode. Many-fountained (men'i-fount-and), a. Having many fountains or streams; being the source of many streams. O mother Ida, many-fountained Ida. Tennyson. Many-headed (men'i-hed-ed), a. Having many heads.-The many-headed, the manyheaded beast or monster, often applied to a mob or the people generally. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign O who would wish to be thy king? Sir W. Scott. Many-peopled (men'i-pe-pld), a. Having a numerous population, or inhabited by many different races; as, the many-peopled earth. Manyplies (men'i-pliz), n. pl. A popular name of the omasum or third stomach of ruminants. Dr. Carpenter. Many-sided (men'i-sid-ed), a. 1. Having many sides; as, a many-sided figure; a manysided question.-2. Exhibiting many aspects of mental or moral character; showing mental or moral activity in many different directions; hence, open to many influences; having wide sympathies; as, a many-sided mind; a many-sided character.-3. Derived from many sources; resulting from many influences; conversant with many subjects or branches of knowledge; exhibiting many phases. We could say much more about this volume as evincing rare and many-sided erudition. Saturday Rev. Many-sidedness (men'i-sid-ed-nes), n. 1. The quality of having many sides.2. The quality of having abilities that actively display themselves in many different directions; the quality of having wide sympathies; the quality of being capable of regarding a subject on all its sides or in all its aspects. Many-ways, Many-wise (men'i-waz, men'i-wiz), adv. In many different ways; multifariously; variously. Maor (mär), n. Same as Maer. Maori (ma'o-ri), n. [A New Zealand word signifying native or indigenous.] One of the native inhabitants of New Zealand. Maori (ma'o-ri), a. Of or belonging to the native inhabitants of New Zealand. Maormor (märʼmor), n. [Gael. maer, maor, a royal steward, and mor, great.] Lit. a great steward. The ancient name for a royal steward of high dignity and power, placed by the King of Scotland over a province instead of a thanage, and exercising the office of royal deputy, enjoying a third part of its revenues. Written also Mormaer (which see). Map (map), n. [L. mappa, a Punic word signifying a napkin, table-napkin-mappa mundi (Fr. mappemonde, It. mappamondo), MAPPERY a delineation of the earth on a cloth; a map.] 1. A representation of the surface of the earth or of any part of it, or of the whole or any part of the celestial sphere, usually drawn on paper or other material. (See CHART.) The surface represented being spherical, a map upon a plane surface must be laid down according to the laws of perspective, or the representation must be that of the surface of a sphere upon a plane on the principles of perspective. This is what is termed projection. There are five principal projections, the orthographic, the stereographic, the globular, the conical, and the cylindrical or Mercator's, distinguished from each other by the different positions of the projecting point in which the eye is supposed to be placed. A map of the earth, or a portion of the earth, usually exhibits merely the positions of countries, mountains, rivers, lakes, cities, &c., relatively to one another, and by means of lines of latitude and longitude relatively to every other point on the earth's surface. But a map may be so coloured or shaded as to give a variety of information: for example, to indicate the geological structure, the amount of rainfall, the languages spoken, &c. Hence we have geological, meteorological, linguistic, and other kinds of maps.-2. Fig. a distinct and precise representation of anything. Map (map), v.t. pret. & pp. mapped; ppr. mapping. To draw or delineate in a chart or map, as the figure of any portion of land; hence, fig. to delineate or describe vividly and accurately: often with out; as, the country has been surveyed and mapped out. I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. Shak Maple (ma'pl), n. [A. Sax. mapeltreô, mapolder, a maple-tree.] A tree of the genus Acer, nat. order Aceracea or Sapindaceae, peculiar to the northern and temperate parts of the globe. About fifty species are known, distributed through Europe, North America, and different parts of Asia. They are small or large trees, with a sweetish, rarely milky, sap,opposite deciduous, simple, usually lobed Sugar Maple (Acer saccharinum). leaves, and axillary and terminal racemes or corymbs of small greenish flowers. The characteristic form of the fruit is shown in the figure. Two species are common in Britain, the great maple, often miscalled sycamore (4. pseudo-platanus), and the common maple (A. campestre). The wood of the former is valuable for various purposes, as for musical instruments, saddletrees, wooden dishes, and many other articles both of furniture and machinery. The knotted parts of the sugar-maple furnish the pretty bird's-eye maple of cabinet-makers. The wood of several American species is also applied to various uses. The sugar or rock maple (A. saccharinum) is the most important species; this yields maple-sugar, which in many parts of North America is an important article of manufacture. A tree of ordinary size will yield from 15 to 30 gallons of sap, from which are made from 2 to 4 lbs. of sugar.-Maple-honey, the uncrystallized portion of the sap of the rock-maple from which sugar is made.. Maple-sugar, sugar obtained by evaporation from the juice of the rock-maple. Map-mounter (map'mount-ér), n. A workman who backs maps with canvas, varnishes them, and fixes them on rollers, &c. Simmonds. Mappery (map'èr-i), n. The art of planning and designing maps. Shak. MAQUI Maqui (mak'wē), n. An evergreen or subevergreen shrub found in Chili, from the juice of whose fruit the Chilians make a kind of wine. It is the best known species of the genus Aristotelia (A. Maqui), and is referred to the nat. order Tiliaceæ. It is cultivated as an ornamental shrub in England, and its fruit ripens. Mar (mär), v.t. pret. & pp. marred; ppr. marring. [A. Sax. myrran, merran, åmyrran, to hinder, to obstruct, to lead aside, to spoil; O. E. amerre, to mar; Icel merja, to bruise or crush; 0.H.G. marrjan, M. H.G. merren, to hinder, to make void; from same root as mild (which see). The word passed from the German into the Romance languages: 0. Fr. and Pr. marrir, Sp. marrar, L.L. marrire, to annoy, to injure.] To injure in any way; to spoil; to impair; to deface; to disfigure; to deform. Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Lev. xix. 27. When brewers mar their malt with water. Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. Dryden. Each passion dimm'd his face Thrice changed with pale, ire, envy, and despair; Which marr'd his borrowed visage. Milton. Mart (mär), n. A blot; a blemish; an injury. Ascham. Mart (mär), n. A lake. See MERE. Mara (maʼra), n. A rodent animal, sometimes called the Patagonian Cavy (Dolichotis patachonicus). It lives in forms like the hare, a single couple usually occupying each form. Mara (ma'ra), n. [Icel. mara, the nightmare.] In Norse myth. a demon who torments men with frightful visions. The word brag has an etymological connection with the name of Bragi, the Norse god of song and mirth, while the faithful devotees of Bragi fall after a while under the power of Mara, a savage demon who tortures men with visions and crushes them even to death, and who still survives, though with mitigated powers, as the nightmare of modern days. Isaac Taylor. Marabou-stork (mä-rä-bö'stork), n. The name given to two species of storks, the delicate white feathers beneath the wing and tail of which form the marabou-feathers imported to this country. One species is a native of West Africa (Leptoptilus marabou), another is common in India, where it is generally called the adjutant; it is the Leptoptilus Argala. Marabout, Maraboot (mä-rä-böt'), n. In Northern Africa, among the Berbers, one of a kind of saints or sorcerers who are held in high estimation. They distribute amulets, affect to work miracles, and are thought to exercise the gift of prophecy. Maracan (marʼa-kan), n. [Brazilian maracana.] The name given in Brazil to several of the macaws. Marah (ma'ra), n. [Heb., bitterness. The name given to a place on the east of the Red Sea from the bitterness of its waters.] Bitter-water; bitterness. All their lives long, with the unleavened bread And bitter herbs of exile and its fears, The wasting famine of the heart they fed, And slaked its thirst with marah of their tears. Longfellow. Maral (ma-rā'), n. A sacred inclosure or temple among the islanders of the Pacific Ocean. Maranade (mar'a-nād), v.t. Same as Mari Maranatha (mar-a-nä'tha), n. [Syr.] The Lord comes or has come: a word used by the apostle Paul in expressing a curse. This word was used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance on thee for thy crime.' Maranta (ma-ran'ta), n. [After B. Maranti, a Venetian physician and botanist.] A genus of plants, nat. order Marantaceæ. The arrow-root of commerce is obtained from the rhizomes of M. arundinacea, an herbaceous branching plant 4 to 6 feet high, with narrow ovate leaves and small white solitary or loosely racemose flowers. It is a native of Tropical America. See ARROWROOT. Marantaceæ (mar-an-tā'sē-ē), n. pl. A nat. order of endogenous plants found wild in tropical countries only. Called also Cannacece. They are perennial herbs, with fibrous roots or fleshy creeping rhizomes, alternate simple leaves with sheathing foot-stalks, and irregular, often handsome, racemose or panicled flowers. The genus Canna is com. 119 monly cultivated under the name of Indian shot. See Indian shot under INDIAN, MARANTA. Marasca (mar-as'ka), a. [See MARASCHINO.] A term applied to the small black wild variety of cherry from which maraschino is distilled. Maraschino (mar-as-kē'nō), n. [It., from marasca, amarasca, a kind of sour cherry, from L. amarus, bitter.] A delicate spirit distilled from cherries; the best is from Zara in Dalmatia, and is obtained from the marasca cherry. Marasmus (ma-razʼmus), n. [Gr. marasmos, from maraino, to cause to pine or waste away.] A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; atrophy; phthisis; consumption. Marasmus often depends on disease of the mesenteric glands, or some obstruction in the course of the chyle. Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide wasting pestilence. Milton. -Marasmus senilis, progressive atrophy of the aged. Marasqueno (mar-as-kē'nō), n. Same as Maraschino. Marattiaceae (ma-rat'ti-a"sē-ē), n. pl. An order of ferns found in South America, the Eastern Pacific Islands, and South Africa, differing from Polypodiacea in the absence of a jointing ring to the spore-case, and from Ophioglossaceae in having the sori and the vernation circinate. Maraud (ma-rad), v.i. [Fr. marauder, to beg, play the rogue, from maraud, a rogue, a vagabond.] To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. Maraud (ma-rad'), n. Spoliation by ma rauders. While it would expose the whole extent of the surrounding country to maraud and ravage W. Irving. Marauder (ma-rad'ér), n. One who marauds; a rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer. The pirates had been a troublesome enemy, because, as flying marauders, lurking, and watching their opportunities, they could seldom be brought to action. De Quincey. Maravedi (mä-rä-vā-dē'), n. [Sp.; so called from Marabitin, an Arabian dynasty which reigned in Spain and Africa, lit. the steadfast.] A small copper coin of Spain, less than a farthing sterling. It is no longer current. The gold maravedi, a still older coin, was worth about fourteen shillings. Marble (mär'bl), n. [Fr. marbre, L. marmor, marble; Gr. marmaros, any stone or rock which sparkles in the light, from marmairo, to flash, to gleam.] 1. The popular name of any species of calcareous stone or mineral, of a compact texture, and of a beautiful appearance, susceptible of a good polish. Marble is limestone, or a stone which may be calcined to lime, a carbonate of lime; but limestone is a more general name, comprehending the calcareous stones of an inferior texture, as well as those which admit a fine polish. The term is limited by mineralogists and geologists to the several varieties of carbonate of lime which have more or less of a granular and crystalline texture. In sculp. the term is applied to several compact or granular kinds of stone susceptible of a very fine polish. The varieties of marble are exceedingly numerous, and greatly diversified in colour. Marble is much used for statues, busts, pillars, chimney-pieces, monuments, &c. By far the largest portion of the marble used by modern sculptors comes from the quarries of Carrara in Italy, but some is also got from Greece. Many sorts of variegated marbles of great beauty are found in Britain.-2. A little ball of marble, of other stone, or of baked clay, used by children in play.-3. A column, tablet, or the like, of marble, remarkable for some inscription or sculpture.-Arundel marbles or Arundelian marbles, a collection of ancient sculptured marbles, purchased by Sir William Petty at Smyrna in 1624 for the Earl of Arundel, whose grandson presented it to the University of Oxford. The most curious and interesting portion of this collection is called the Parian Chronicle, from having been kept in the island of Paros. In its perfect state the inscription contained a chronicle of the principal events in Grecian history from the time of mythical or semimythical Cecrops (1582 B.C.) to the archonship of Diognetus (264 B.C.), but part of it is now lost, and what remains is much corroded and defaced.-Elgin marbles, a splendid collection of basso-rilievos and frag MARCH ments of statuary brought from the Parthenon at Athens to England by Lord Elgin in 1814, afterwards purchased by the government, and now lodged in the British Museum. The largest part of them (ninetytwo pieces in all) were, perhaps, executed from designs by Phidias, and are considered among the finest remains of ancient art.— Fire marble, a kind of lumachel in which red colours predominate. Marble (marbl), a. 1. Composed of marble; as, a marble pillar.-2. Variegated in colour; stained or veined like marble. The appendix shall be printed by itself, stitched, and with a marble cover. Swift. 3. Hard; insensible; as, a marble heart. Marble (marbl), v.t. pret. & pp. marbled; ppr. marbling. To give an appearance of marble to; to stain or vein like marble; as, to marble the edges of a book. Marble-breasted (mär'bl-brest-ed), a. Insensible; hard-hearted. 'Marble-breasted tyrant.' Shak. Marble-constant (märʼbl-kon-stant), a. Immovable as marble; firm; constant. Shak. Marble-cutter (märbl-kut-êr), n. One who hews marble; a worker in marble; an instrument or machine for cutting marble. Marble-edged (mar'bl-ejd), a. Having the edges marbled, as a book. Marble-hearted (mär bl-härt-ed), a. Having a heart like marble; hard-hearted; cruel; insensible; incapable of being moved by pity, love, or sympathy. 'Marble-hearted flend.' Shak. Marbleize (märbl-iz), v.t. To stain or otherwise mark in imitation of marble. Marble-paper (marbl-pa-pèr), n. Paper marked in imitation of variegated marble. Marbler (mär'bler), n. 1. One who works in marble. Fuller. [Rare. ]-2. One who stains or otherwise marks in imitation of marble. Marbles (mär'blz), n. pl. A venereal disease, probably bubo. R. Greene, Marbling (mär'bling), n. 1. The art or practice of variegating in colour, in imitation of marble. 2. Any marking resembling that of veined marble; as, the marbling of flesh-meat produced by the fat and lean being so intermixed as to produce that appearance. Marbly (mär'bli), a. Resembling marble in structure or appearance. Mrs. Jameson. Marc (märk), n. [Fr.; L. emarcus, a kind of vine-a word of Celtic origin.] The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, as of grapes, olives, &c. Marc (märk), n. [See MARK.] A weight of gold and silver; a money of account. ᎷᎪᎡᏦ . See Marca (märʼka), n. See MANCA. Marcasite (mar'kas-it), n. [A word of Arabic origin; It. marcassita; Fr. marcassite.] Iron pyrites or bisulphide of iron. Marcasite occurs crystallized in modified rhombic prisms, and also in reniform and botryoidal masses. It is of a paler colour than ordinary pyrites, being nearly of the colour of tin, and its lustre is more strongly metallic. The older mineralogists gave this name to pyrites occurring in thin veins, and that of pyrites to nodular masses. Marcasitic, Marcasitical (mär-ka-sit’ik, mär-ka-sit'ik-al), a. Pertaining to marcasite; of the nature of marcasite. Marcassin (mär-kas'sin), n. [Fr.] In her. a young wild boar. Marceline (mär'se-lin), n. [Fr., from L. marceo, to be weak, thin.] A thin silk tissue used for linings, &c., in ladies' dresses. Simmonds. Marcescent (mär-ses'ent), a. [L. marcescens, marcescentis, ppr. of marcesco, to fade.] Withering; fading; decaying; specifically, in bot. withering, but not falling off till the part bearing it is perfected; as, a marcescent perianth. That may Marcescible (mär-ses'i-bl), a. wither; liable to decay. Marcgraviaceæ (märk’gra-vi-ā”sē-ē), n. pl. [In honour of Marcgrave, the German ñaturalist.] A small unimportant group of hypogynous exogenous plants found in Central America, remarkable for their cucullate bracts, now considered as a tribe of Ternstræmiaceæ. They are climbing or epiphytic plants, with leathery entire leaves, and flowers in terminal racemes. March (march), n. [O. Fr. march, from L. Martius, pertaining to Mars, Martius mensis, Mars' month, Mars, the god of war.] The third month of the year.-Mad as a |