Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 13

Mangcorn (n.) A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain.

Mange (n.) The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.

Mangel-wurzel (n.) A kind of large field beet (B. macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet.

Manger (n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

Manger (n.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.

Mangily (adv.) In a mangy manner; scabbily.

Manginess (n.) The condition or quality of being mangy.

Mangled (imp. & p. p.) of Mangle

Mangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mangle

Mangle (v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.

Mangle (v. t.) To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

Mangle (n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

Mangle (n.) To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

Mangler (n.) One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.

Mangler (n.) One who smooths with a mangle.

Mangoes (pl. ) of Mango

Mango (n.) The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

Mango (n.) A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.

Mangoldwurzel (n.) See Mangel-wurzel.

Mangonel (n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

Mangonism (n.) The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage.

Mangonist (n.) One who mangonizes.

Mangonist (n.) A slave dealer; also, a strumpet.

Mangonize (v. t.) To furbish up for sale; to set off to advantage.

Mangosteen (n.) Alt. of Mangostan

Mangostan (n.) A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

Mangrove (n.) The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.

Mangrove (n.) The mango fish.

Mangue (n.) The kusimanse.

Mangy (superl.) Infected with the mange; scabby.

Manhaden (n.) See Menhaden.

Manhead (n.) Manhood.

Manhole (n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

Manhood (n.) The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.

Manhood (n.) Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.

Mania (n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

Mania (n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.

Maniable (a.) Manageable.

Maniac (a.) Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.

Maniac (n.) A raving lunatic; a madman.

Maniacal (a.) Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac.

Manicate (a.) Covered with hairs or pubescence so platted together and interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.

Manichaean (n.) Alt. of Manichee

Manichean (n.) Alt. of Manichee

Manichee (n.) A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil.

Manichaean (a.) Alt. of Manichean

Manichean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Manichaeans.

Manichaeism (n.) Alt. of Manicheism

Manicheism (n.) The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the Manichaeans.

Manicheist (n.) Manichaean.

Manichord () Alt. of Manichordon

Manichordon () The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

Manicure (n.) A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails.

Manid (n.) Any species of the genus Manis, or family Manidae.

Manie (n.) Mania; insanity.

Manifest (a.) Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.

Manifest (a.) Detected; convicted; -- with of.

Manifests (pl. ) of Manifest

Manifest (a.) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto.

Manifest (a.) A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse.

Manifested (imp. & p. p.) of Manifest

Manifesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manifest

Manifest (v. t.) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, -- usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.

Manifest (v. t.) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

Manifestable (a.) Such as can be manifested.

Manifestation (n.) The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, that which manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation.

Manifestible (a.) Manifestable.

Manifestly (adv.) In a manifest manner.

Manifestness (n.) The quality or state of being manifest; obviousness.

Manifestoes (pl. ) of Manifesto

Manifesto (n. & a.) A public declaration, usually of a prince, sovereign, or other person claiming large powers, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives in reference to some act done or contemplated by him; as, a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives.

Manifold (a.) Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.

Manifold (a.) Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number.

Manifold (n.) A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.

Manifold (n.) A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.

Manifold (n.) The third stomach of a ruminant animal.

Manifolded (imp. & p. p.) of Manifold

Manifolding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manifold

Manifold (v. t.) To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.

Manifolded (a.) Having many folds, layers, or plates; as, a manifolded shield.

Manifoldly (adv.) In a manifold manner.

Manifoldness (n.) Multiplicity.

Manifoldness (n.) A generalized concept of magnitude.

Maniform (a.) Shaped like the hand.

Maniglion (n.) Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.

Manihoc (n.) Alt. of Manihot

Manihot (n.) See Manioc.

Manikin (n.) A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.

Manikin (n.) A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.

Manila (a.) Alt. of Manilla

Manilla (a.) Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city.

Manilio (n.) See Manilla, 1.

Manilla (n.) A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa.

Manilla (n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa.

Manilla (a.) Same as Manila.

Manille (n.) See 1st Manilla, 1.

Manioc (n.) The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.

Maniple (a.) A handful.

Maniple (a.) A division of the Roman army numbering sixty men exclusive of officers, any small body of soldiers; a company.

Maniple (a.) Originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. It is sometimes worn in the English Church service.

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