MPage 54
- English Word Man Definition A human being; -- opposed tobeast.
- English Word Man Definition Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
- English Word Man Definition The human race; mankind.
- English Word Man Definition The male portion of the human race.
- English Word Man Definition One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
- English Word Man Definition An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
- English Word Man Definition A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!
- English Word Man Definition A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
- English Word Man Definition One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
- English Word Man Definition One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
- English Word Man Definition To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
- English Word Man Definition To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
- English Word Man Definition To tame, as a hawk.
- English Word Man Definition To furnish with a servants.
- English Word Man Definition To wait on as a manservant.
- English Word Man-eater Definition One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.
- English Word Manable Definition Marriageable.
- English Word Manace Definition Same as Menace.
- English Word Manacle Definition A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.
- English Word Manacle Definition To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers.