In glaring Chloe's man-like taste and mien, To the near view no pleasing charms display. Goldsmith. The Deserted Village. In all the silent manliness of grief. Tis meaner (cries the manling) to command Or broach new-minted fashions fresh from France. Beattie. Battle of the Pigmies & Cranes. Manslaughter is therefore thus defined, the unlawful killing of another without malice either express or implied: which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat, or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 14. MANACLE, v. Fr. Manicle; It. Manette; MA'NACLE, n. Lat. Manica; from manus, the hand. See To FETTER. To bind or fasten the hands; fasten, to bind. Who can read In the pale face, dead eye, or lenten shute, The liberty thy ever giving hand Hath bought for others, manacling it self la gives of parchment indissoluble? generally, to B&Fletch. The Honest Man's Fortune, Act iv. sc. 1. The' were they manicled behinde our backe, Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 5. Various of numbers, new in ev'ry strain; Oft times nothing profits more Than self esteem, grounded on just right Well minag'd. Young men, in the conduct, and mannage of actions, entrace more than they can hold.-Bacon. Ess. Youth & Age. Not adverting, that the first constitution and order of is not in reason and nature manageable by such a which is most excellently adequated and proportioned ings fully setled.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 316. Many a good husband overtasks himself; and undertakes than his eye can overlook, or his hand sway; and erfare is fain to trust to the management of others as it Speeds thereafter.-Bp. Hall. Fast Sermon, April 5, 1628. Jastre and Charitie. Justice, that requires both authorin the menager, and innocence in the menaging. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. viii. Id. The Impresse of God, pt. ii. Upon pretence of his legantine power he [Wolsey] assumed the managery of all the ecclesiastical matters whatsoever. Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1530. Throughout the whole managery of it [controversy] he [Thomas Tully] laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities. Wood, Athena Oxon. vol. ii. If the man of taste, however, will be pleased to mark how Are such men rare? perhaps they would abound, Conducted on a manageable scale.-Cowper. Tirocinium. Mr. Walpole (afterwards Sir Robert) was one of the managers on this occasion. Burke. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. MANCHET. Minshew derives from Maine, the hand. In Fr. Miche is a manchet, and michet, a small manchet, said (see Menage and Skinner) to be from the Lat. Mica, a small bit, a crum. Cheat, is a name given to wheaten bread, (see Nares,) and may be the same word as cate, the hard c softened into ch. But manchet itself seems to have an affinity with the Fr. Manger, to eat. See the quotation from Holinshed. And Salamos fode was in one day thyrtie quarters of Beaum. & Fletch. The Elder Brother, Act ii. sc. 4. Cotton. The Snail and the Gardener. To deliver into servitude, to subject to servitude, to enslave. It is no marvel if those have mancipated their minds to the judgments of some whom they over-admire, and have lent their eyes out of their own heads. Bp. Hall. Episcopacy by Divine Right, s. 2. They [the Romans] fortified themselves against all incursions and prevailed against all mankind to their mancipation under them.-Waterhouse. Comment. on Fortescu, p. 187. slavery, which he [man] earnestly must desire to be re MANCIPLE. Such a dispensation [the Jewish] is a pupillage, and a deemed and mancipated from.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 15. An officer (says Mr. Tyrwhitt) Yes, though all were blamed, none were punished for the of court; and, with Skinner, he derives it from who has the care of purchasing victuals for an inn the Lat. Manceps, (see MANCIPATE,) which, in Mid-Latin, was a name given to various characters. See in Du Cange. And Jhesus answeride to him that the first maundement And he wold feeche a feined mandement, Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 6941. Aske whatso-else I haue to giue, Warner. Albion's England, b. vi. c. 30. I am commanded home: get you away: Ile send for you anon,-sir, I obey the mandate, Sending their mandatory with a musqueteer to Doctor Hammond's lodging, [they] commanded him to appear before them, where the whole business was, to hear himself declar'd no orator of the University, nor canon of Christ Church.-Hammond, vol. i. p. viii. Life, by Fell. It doth not appear that he usurped more than a mandatory But, oh! how weakly does Sedition build! Churchill. The Candidate. And mandates for deposing Sovereigns were sealed with the signet of " the fisherman."-Burke. French Revolution. MANDIBLE. Fr. Mandibule; Lat. Mandibulum, (from mandere, to eat, to chew,) the chaws or jaws. See MANDUCATE. The organs with which we eat or chew, the jaws. The bill [of the common cormorant] is dusky, five inches long, destitute of nostrils: the base of the lower mandible is covered with a naked yellowish skin, that extends under the chin, and forms a sort of pouch; a loose skin of the same color reaches from the upper mandible round the eyes and angles of the mouth.-Pennant. British Zoology. MANDILION. Fr. Mandil; It. Mandiglia; Sp. Mandil. So Chapman translates Gr. XAaiva, A mantle, (qv.) Thus put he on his arming trusse, fair shooes upon his About him a mandilion, that did with buttons meet, A garment that gainst cold in nights, did soldiers use to [The anthropophagi about the North Pole] use to drink out of the sculs of men's heads, and to weare the scalpes, haire and all, insteed of mandellions or stomachers, before their breasts.-Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 2. Fr. Mandragore; It. Mandragola; Sp. Mandragora, mandracula; Lat. Mandragoras; Gr. Mavdpayopas, from uavdpa, spelunca, and perhaps ayopew, to tell. Si id placet, ita mandragoras dicetur, quia indicio sit, in proximo esse mandram, vel speluncam: because it points out that a cave is near, (Vossius.) And Ruben wente out in the wheat haruest & foude mandragoras in the felds and brought them vnto his mother Lea. Bible, 1551. Gen. c. 30. In the digging up of the root of mandrage, there are some ceremonies observed: first they that go about this worke look especially to this, that the wind be not in their face, but blow upon their backes: then with the point of a sword they draw three circles round about the plant, which done, they dig it up afterwards with their face unto the West. Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 13. Many mola's and false conceptions there are of mandrakes, the first from great antiquity, conceiveth the root thereof resembles the shape of a man, which is a conceit not to be made out by ordinary inspection, or any other eyes than such as regarding the clouds, behold them in shapes conformable to preapprehensions.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c.6. MANDUCATE, v. Lat. Manducare, from MANDUCATION. Smandere, to chew. Manducatur; quod denti resistatur. To chew; to eat, properly with some strong action of the jaws, or, as anciently written, chaws. It is gravel in the teeth, and a man must drink the blood of his own gums, when he manducates such unwholesome, such unpleasant fruit.-Bp. Taylor. Ser. (1653,) p. 252. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud, dwelleth in me, and I in him; and as a necessary consequent of this spiritual manducation, (John vi. v. 54.) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud hath eternal life. Bp. Hall. Christ Mystical, s. 6. That strong conceit which two of the three haue imbraced, as touching a literall, corporeall, and orall manducation of the very substance of his flesh and bloud, is surely an opinion no where deliuered in holy scripture. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 67. The sum then of Archbishop Cranmer's doctrine on this head is, 1. That John vi. is not to be interpreted of oral manducation in the sacrament, nor of spiritual manducation as confined to the Eucharist, but of spiritual manducation at large, in that or any other sacrament, or out of the sacraments. 2. That, &c.-Waterland. Works, vol. vii. p. 141. MANE, (of horse, &c.) Dut. Maene; Ger. Mane; Sw. Maan. Minshew derives a manando, because it flows from his neck. Wachter,— from Lat. (of the Lower Ages) Minare, to lead, to guide, because the horse was guided by means of it, before the bridle was invented. Junius,-from the Gr. Mavvos, or uavos, a kind of ornament adapted to the neck. Kilian says, that it is so named from its resemblance to the moon, whence it is called, by Martial, juba lunata, and by Catullus, rutila. May it not be from A. S. Mægen, magn, main, strength? And the weake wanton Cupid Shakespeare. Troylus & Cressida, Act iii. sc. 3. Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. A lion she before in mane and throat, Behind a dragon, in the midst a goat. MANGE, v. MA'NGER. MANGERY. Cooke. Hesiod. The Thegony. Alle the while that Gamelyn The Cokes Tale of Gamelyn, Imputed to Chaucer. As though they were not fallen in a puddle of dirte, but rubbed and layde in litter vnder the manger at theyr ease, they whine and they byte, and they kick, and they spurne at him that would help him vp. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1139. Char. God help the courtiers, They lye at rack and manger. Beaum. & Fletch. The Little French Lawyer, Act iv. sc. 1. MANGE, n. Fr. Mangeson, also called MA'NGY. roigne, or rongne, from roigner, MA'NGINESS. to gnaw. (See AROYNT.) The same word as the preceding, applied (Cutem enim exedit et erodit) to An eating, corroding (loathsome) disease. Whether he be blynde, lame, &c. or maunge, or skulde, &c.-Bible, 1551. Leuiticus, c. 21. Euer to remayne In wretched beggery And maungy misery. Skelton. Duke of Albany and the Scottes. And the Lorde wyl smite the with the botches of Egypte and the emorodes, scalle and maungynesse that thou shalte not be healed therof.-Bible, 1551. Deuteronomy, c. 28. Which of your mangy lives is worth this hurt here? Beaum. & Fletch. The Knight of Malta, Act ii. sc. 1. Sce. Oh, this sounds mangily, Poorly, and scurvily in a souldier's mouth. Id. The False One, Act ii. sc. 3. Should I on each sicke pillow leane my breast, And grope the pulse of everie mangie wrest. Bp. Hall, b. iii. Sat. 4. Don Carlos his pockets so amply had fill'd, Rochester. Trial of the Poets for the Bays. MAʼNGLE, v. Į Minshew and Skinner,—from MANGLER. the Lat. Mancus; (Dut. Manck, Ger. Manc.) Junius, from the Dut. Mancken, mencken, mincken, to mince. It may be a dim. of maim, (qv.) or from the engine called a mangonel, (qv.) in Fr. Mangonneau: and in Fr. also mangonner is "to mangle, or disfigure by mangling.” To maim; to mutilate, to lacerate, to tear to pieces. See BEMANGLE. Tyndal shal haue no cause to saye that I deface hys gaye goodlye tale, by mangling of hys matter and rehearsyng hym by patches and pecys.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 538. Then little thinking that these came indeed On their own mangled carcases to feed. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. With care I rais'd on our Rhoetëan coast, A vacant tomb, and hail'd thy mighty ghost: Thy name and arms adorn the place around; And, had thy mangled bleeding corse been found, Thy relics had repos'd in Trojan ground. Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. vi. Since after thee may rise an impious line, Tickell. To Sir Godfrey Kneller. Ger. MANGLE, v. I Ger. Mangen, mangeln; Dut. MANGLE, n. Manghelen het lüin-waet; Mangel-bret; Dut. Manghel-stock, lignum politorium. (See Wachter, and Kilian.) It. Manganare, mangano, manganaro. 66 A kinde of presse to presse buckrom, fustian or died linnen cloth, to make it haue a luster or glasse," (Florio.) MANGONEL. Fr. Mangonneau; Low Lat. Manganum, or mangana, which Vossius (de Vit. lib. iii. c. 23,) derives from the Doric Maxava, a machine. An old-fashioned sling or engine, whereout stones, old iron, and great arrows were violently darted, (Cotgrave.) Mid mangenels & ginnes hor either to other caste. gonare; Lat. Mangonizare, from mango, a slave dealer, who received this name, quia τw μayyavw, sive fuco, colorem falsum inducit mancipiis, ut carius vendat, (Vossius.) To give a fresh hue or appearance. Let gentlemen and ladies who are curious, trust little by mangonisme, insuccations, or medicine, to alter the species or indeed the forms and shapes of flowers considerably. Evelyn. Kalendarium Hortense. March. MA'NIA. MANIAC. MANIACAL. Fr. Manie, maniaque; It. and Sp. Mania; Gr. Mavia, from μalveolai, to rage or rave. Applied toRaging or raving madness; furious or excessive insanity. And in his gere for all the world he ferd Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1377. Epilepsis and maniacal lunacies usually conform to the age of the moon.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra. All their symptoms agree with those of epileptics and maniacs, who fancied they had evil spirits within them. Farmer. Demoniacs of the New Testament, c. 1. s. 8. Now, if maniacal and epileptical distempers owe their rise to natural causes; and (so far as reason can judge) to these causes only; it is not only groundless, but absurd, to ascribe them to a supernatural influence.-Id. Ib. s. 9. MANIABLE. See MANAGE. Ye manifesten or publishen your renome and done your name for to ben borne forthe.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii. Than it is manifeste and open, that by the gettyng of dignitie, menne been maked blisful, right as by the getting of justice. Id. Ib. Yet haue I bene therin the longer and haue spoken of this matter somewhat ye more at large, for ye manifestation of their great blindnesse.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 371. And thou shalte wryte vpon the stones all the wordes of this lawe manyfestly and well.-Bible, 1551. Deut. c. 27. Synnyng againste the Holy Ghost, which is the malicious persecutyng of the cleare trouth so manifestly proued, that they can not once hish against it.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 17. Who seekes To lessen thee, against his purpose serves To manifest the more thy might.-Milton. P. Lost, b. vii. There is no other way then this that is manifestable either by scripture, reason, or experience. More. Defence of the Moral Cabbala, c. 3. In this fight, neither did his courage transport him [Pyrrhus] beyond the duty of a careful general, nor his providence in directing others, hinder the manifestation of his personal valour.-Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. iv. c. 7.8.2. Physicians affirm, that transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first; although succeeding years produced the manifesto or evidence of their virilities. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 17. I but accus'd, you doom'd: and yet he dy'd, Convinc'd of treason. and was fairly try'd: You heard not he was false: your eyes beheld The traitor manifest; the bribe reveal'd. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii. But you, authentic witnesses I bring, Before the gods, and your ungrateful king, Of this my manifest: that never more This hand shall combat on the crooked shore. Id. Homer. Iliad, b. i. The magistrate is not to be obeyed in temporals more than in spirituals where a repugnancy is perceived between his commands and any credited manifestations of the divine will.-Paley. Moral Philosophy, vol. ii c. 10. If a preference, in this respect, can be given to either, when both are manifestly Utopian. Hurd. Note on Cowley. The College. [Solon] published his famous manifesto for rendering infamous all persons, who in civil seditions should remain spectators of their country's danger by a criminal neutrality. MANIFOLD. MANIFOLDED. MA'NIFOLDLY. Observer, No. 117. A. S. Manig-feald, mænifeald, multiplex, having or consisting of many folds, being much folded or multiplied. Much folded, enfolded, or enwrapped, complicated, having many folds, various involutions or complexities; complex, or composed of many or various kinds. And at the last the bird began to sing, Chaucer. The Flower and the Leafe. He the most riche araye Wherof a woman maie be gaye, With hym he toke manifolde. And where places were rough by reason of the thornes of Fr. Maniable, manageable. manifold vices, and naughty desires and lustes, they shail now bee made veray smoothe and playn waves. Udal. Luke, c. 3. To serve his ends, and make his courses hold. Daniel. To the Lady Margaret. The scarffes, and the bannerets about thee, did manifoldlie disswade me from beleeuing thee a vessell of too great a burthen.-Shakes. All's Well that Ends Well, Act ii. sc. 3. After various thought And trials manifold. Dyer. The Fleece, b. ii. MANIPLE. Fr. Manipule; It. Manipolo; Sp. Manipulo; Lat. Manipulum, that which fills the hand, quod manum impleat. A handful, a bundle; a small band of soldiers. Also, a scarf-like ornament worn round the left hand or wrist of a sacrificing priest, (Cotgrave.) When from the wall they view'd those troopes afar To stand, or giue a charge.-May. Lucan, b. x. sig. T. 5. MANNA. Hebrew. See the quotation Maanaed,--honied. And whan that thei for hunger plaine, The mighty God began to rayne Manna fro heuen downe to grounde, His foode. Gower. Con. A. b. v. And the house of Israel called it man. And it was lyke Let coriander seede, & whyte & ye tast of it was lyke vnto aders made with honye.-Bible, 1551. Exodus. Though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear Now, Philos, see how mannerly your curre, Browne. The Shepheard's Pipe, Ecl. 6. nation; For they were bred ere manners were in fashion: Dryden. Satire on the Dutch, (1662.) For songs and verses mannerly obscene, Rochester. Horace, b. i. Sat. 10. An Allusion. Thomson. Summer. Then know thyself, the human mind survey, or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uni- As I am satisfied nothing ought to be admitted from be- He [Hayman] sometimes succeeded well, though a strong mannerist, and easily distinguishable by the large noses and Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. shambling legs of his figures. And each, for some base interest of his own, MANNER, v. MANNER, n. MANNERISM. MANNERIST. Fr. Manière; It. Maniera; Sp. Manera, modus agendi aut loquendi. From the Fr. Main, the hand, was The mode or method, fashion or form; the sort And in this maner y wys Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 3. MANOEUVRE, v. Low Lat. Manu-operaMANOEUVRE, n. Srius, one who works with the hand; manus, and opera. Cotgrave has manœuvrer, to hold, occupy, possesse, (an old Norman word.) Manœuvrier, a mechanical workman or labourer, an artificer, a handicrafts-man. See Du Cange and Menage. To do any thing handily or dexterously; cleverly Sir George Rodney, who had eagerly watched and waited Belsham. History of Gt. Britain, April 8th, 1782. 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 mas terly manœuvre proved decisive.-Id. Ib. Here I could not shake off old habits. so far as to resist stage, by which manoeuvre, I took the credit of having trathe temptation of getting into a post-chaise for the last velled like a gentleman.-Observer, No. 93. MA'NOR. Fr. Manoir; Bar. Lat. Maneria vel manerium, from the Lat. Manere; q. d. mansio, the manR. Gloucester, p. 21.sion, (Skinner.) Vossius calls it-habitatio, cum And Mede ys manered after him.-Piers Plouhman, p. 25. certâ agri portione; a dwelling, with a certain Pon be sente othere servauntes, moo thanne the portion of land. See the quotations from Bacon and in lyke manere they diden to hem. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 21. And sikerly she was of grete disport Anfal plesant, and amiable of port, And peined hire to contrefeten chere court, and ben estatelich of manere. Chaucer. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, v. 146. er Latin corrupt was hire speche gate therby was she understonde. Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4939 Your medeling mastres is manerles. Skelton. The Boke of Philip Sparow. Tn Antiochus hymselfe was sory in hys mynde for Onias, ipytyed hym and he wept, rememberyng his sobererige behauioure.-Bible, 1551. Machab. c. 4. the thing that is set before the manerly as it becoman-Id. Jesus Sirach, c. 31. and Blackstone. In the iii. yer of his reign in Septembre was bore to the In her, that was his resting place.-Chaucer. Dreame. Spelman. Of the Ancient Government of England. When the king had given to any of them two thousand acres of land, this party purposing in this place to make a dwelling, or, as the old word is, his mansion-house, or his manor-house, did devise how he might make his land a comBacon. Use of the Law. plete habitation to supply him with all maner of necessaries Know then, old Gripe is dead of late, Somervile. The Night Walker Reclaimed. A manor, manerium, a manendo, because the usual residence of the owner, seems to have been a district of ground, hands so much land as was necessary for the use of their held by lords or great personages; who kept in their own families, which were called terra-dominicalis, or demesne lands, being occupied by the lord or dominus manerii and his servants.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 6. Hence we may conclude, that besides the church, there was a domestic or manerial chapel belonging to the old family seat at Asterlie.-Warton. History of Kiddington, p. 20. This tenure [the right of common] is also usually embarrassed by the interference of manorial claims, under which it often happens that the surface belongs to one owner, and the soil to another, so that neither owner can stir a clod without the concurrence of his partner in the property.-Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. vi. c. 11. MANSE, n. Low Lat. Mansus; Fr. Mansioner, Weiler, inhabitan abider; one that hath a manMA'NSIONRY. sion in a place, (Cotgrave.) Lat. MANOR; also Manse, in Jamieson; and Mansus, Mansio, from manere, to stay or abide. See in Du Cange. A dwelling, habitation, or abode; it is not unfrequently applied emphatically to a house of some magnitude, and Manse, in Scotland, especially to a parsonage house. Passed out of the toun Chaucer. Testament of Creseide. In woods, in waues, in warres, she wonts to dwell. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4. Banc. This guest of summer, Mede. Paraphrase of St. Peter, (1642,) p. 16. Somervile. The Fortune Hunter, c. 5. Finally, let us reflect, that in the habitations of life are many mansions; rewards of various orders and degrees, proportioned to our various degrees of virtue and exertion here. Paley, Ser. 35. MANSUET. Fr. Mansuet, mansuétude; It. MANUUTEDE. Mansuetudine, an. Mansuetus. from mansuescere, q. d. manu suetus, to accustom to the hand, to render manageable or tractable; and, consequentially, Tame, gentle, courteous, meek, mild, humble. Letter of Cupid. Imputed to Chaucer. Chaucer. Troilus & Creseide, b. v. The remedie ayenst ire, is a vertue that cleped is mansuetude, that is debonairtee.-Id. The Persones Tale. They shulde rather saye that he were a great mansuetude, whiche terme beynge semblably before this tyme vnknowen in our tongue, maye be by the sufferaunce of wise men, now receiued by custome, wherby the terme shall be made famyliare.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governor, b. i. c. 25. Pliny affirmeth it [unicorn] is a fierce and terrible creature; Vartomannus, a tame and mansuete animal. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 23. The most endearing instance of the mansuetude of Chiron, will be found in his behaviour when the Argo sailed near the coast on which he lived. Steevens; in Warton's Milton. Mansus. MANTEL, or MANTLE, U. MANTLE, n. MA'NTLET. A. S. Mantel, mentel; Ger. Dut. and Sw. Mantel; Fr. Manteau; It. Mantello; Sp. Lat. Mantum. "Scandice (says Hickes) Mattul vel Mottul est Pallium, more Septentrionalium Gothorum, qui ab n ante t vel dabhorrent,"(Gram. Franco- Thectisca, p. 96.) The Gr. Mavovas was the name of a kind of military vest among the Persians; and from this word some etymologists derive our mantle; others from the Gr. Iuariov see in Junius. The most general application is to A cloak or coverlet; and from this application the others appear to take their origin. A mantel to a fire-place or chimney, (see the quotations from Wotton,) to hide or cover them, and "convert even the conduits of soot and smoak into ornaments," (Wotton.) Attir'd in mantles all the knights were seen, MANUAL, adj. MANUAL, n. MA'NUARY, adj. Fr. Manuel; It. Manuale; Sp.Manual; Lat. Manualis, from manus, the hand. Handy, of or pertaining to the hand, wrought or done with the hands; having hands. A manual, (Gr. Εγχειριδιον,) MA'NUARY, n. A handy (book), or a book that may be held or carried in the hand. I see not what would follow any more then the common verse of the compute manuell.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1111. For their country [Arabia] was always barren and desert, wanting manual arts whereby to supply the naturals with furniture.-Ralegh. History of the World, b. ii. c. 20. s. 4. What learning is that, which the seas, or Alpes, or Py A mantelet, a covering, constructed for the liberall, or manuary, wherein the greatest masters haue not protection of miners, besiegers, &c. To mantle, to cover, to cloke, to hide, to overspread. To mantle, (as a hawk,)-to unfold, and overspread the wings, like a mantel, (Skinner,) To mantle, (as fermented liquors,)-to rise and overspread (sc.) with fume or froth; to spread, to extend or expand; to spread in luxuriant growth, (as the vine,) to grow luxuriantly, to luxuriate, to wanton. Hyre body wyth a muntel, a wympel aboute her heued. R. Gloucester, p. 338. And gaderiden to him al the company of knyghtis, and unclothiden him and diden aboute him a reed mantel. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 27. Night with his mantel, that is derke and rude, Gan oversprede the hemisperie aboute. Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9670. A mantelet upon his shouldres hanging, Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2165. Medea with hir art hath wrought Gower. Con. A. b. v. Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 4. The mantled meadows mourne; Martius. Come I too late? renees, have engrossed from us? what profession either beene at least equalled by our home-bred islanders? Bp. Hall. Quo Vadis? s. 9. There are some special gifts of the Spirit, which we call charismata, which do no more argue a right to the sonship of God, than the manuary's infused skill of Bezaleel and Aholiab could prove them saints.-Id. Ser. Rom. viii. 14. Parents deprived of hands, beget manual issues, and the defect of those parts is supplied by the idea of others. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 2. It importeth greatly the good of all men that God be reverenced, with whose honour it standeth not that they which are publiquely imployed in his seruice, should líue of base and manuari trades.-Hooker. Eccl. Politie, b. v. § 81. Train'd to the manual fight, and bruiseful toil, P. Whitehead. The Gymnasiad, b. i. A well organized and very pliant hand may determine to occupations requiring manual dexterity. Beddoes. On Mathematical Evidence, p. 63. Note. MANUDUCTION. Į From the Lat. Manus, MANUDUCTOR. the hand, and ductio, a leading, (from ducere, to lead.) A leading by the hand; a leading, guiding, or directing. Nature and Grace, which have their hands in this manuduction both ways, stand in perpetual opposition to each other.-Bp. Hall. Ser. Rom. viii. 14. Love be your manuductor; may the tears Jordan. Poems, before 1660. And under the blacke vele of guilty night, The pair [of wings] that clad Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his brest, The swan with arched neck Id. Ib. b. vii. MANUFACTORY. MANUFACTURE, v. MANUFACTURE, n. MANUFACTUṛer. MANUFACT. make. To make with the hand, to work with the hand; to frame or form, to make up with the hand: generally, and met. to fashion, frame, or form, to work or make up. This law pointed at a true principle; that where forraine materials are but superfluities, forraine manufactures should bee prohibited. For that will either banish the superfluitie, or gaine the manufacture.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 215. In places, wherein thriving manufactories have erected themselves, land has been observed to sell quicker, and for more years' purchase than in other places, as about Hallifax in the North, Taunton and Exeter in the West. Locke. On the Lowering of Interest, &c. A trading and manufacturing country naturally purchases with a small part of its manufactured produce, a great part of the rude produce of other countries. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 9. By means of trade and manufactures, a greater quantity of subsistence can be annually imported into a particular country, than what its own lands, in the actual state of their cultivation, could afford.-Id. Ib. Our woollen manufacturers have been more successful lature that the prosperity of the nation depended upon the than any other class of workmen, in persuading the legissuccess and extension of their particular business. MANUMISE, v. MANUMISSING, n. MANUMI'SSION. MA'NUMIT, U. Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 8. Fr. Manumission; It. Manomettere, manomissione; Sp. Manumittir, manumission; Lat. Manu-mittere, (manus, the hand, mittere, to send away,) e manu mittere, to send away or dismiss, out of the hand; and, applied to slaves. To deliver or set at liberty, to liberate, to free from slavery or servitude, to enfranchise. Then Valerius judging that Vindicius the bondman had well deserved also some recompence, caused him not onely to be manumissed by the whole grant of the people, but made him a free man of the city besides: and he was the first bondman manumissed, that was made citizen of Rome. North. Plutarch, p. 85. Long after that, and very lately. Appius, to curry favour with the common people, made it lawfull for bondmen manumissed, to give their voices also in elections, as other citizens did and unto this day the perfect manumissing and freeing of bondmen, is called vindicta, after the name of this Vindicius, that was then made a free man.-Id. Ib. Then whereto serves it to have been enlarg'd Daniel. Musophilus. to the villein a deed of manumission. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 6. Yet Pausanias, speaking of the same period, says, that all the Achæans able to bear arms, even when several manumitted slaves were joined to them, did not amount to 15,000 MANU'RE, v. MANU'RE, n. MANU'RABLE. MANU'RAGE. MANU'RANCE. MANU'REMENT. Hume, pt. ii. Ess. 11. The same word as Manœuvre, (qv.) by the mere corruption of œuvre into ure; to work with the hand, and applied to such work employed, To cultivate; to cultivate land, to till it; (as more restrictedly applied) to cultivate by the addition of other substances, e. g. different soil o earth, dung, mixtures, or mixens, &c.; and thus to improve, to enrich, to fertilize. Sir T. Smith uses it as equivalent to manage. To whom we gaue the strond for to manure, And lawes to rule our town.-Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b.iv Wherefore generally to speak of the commonwealth, o policie of England, it is gouerned, administered, and ma nured by three sorts of persons, the princes, monarch, an heade gouernour, which is called the king, or if the crown fall to a woman, the queen absolute. Smith. Commonwealth, b. i. c. 23 Warner. Albion's England, b. v. c. 2 Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. conside the king ment of mo This book [Doomsday] in effect gives an account not only d the manurable landes in every mannor, town or vil, but Lise of the number and natures of their several inhabitants. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 235. New, of the conquerour, this isle Hath Britaine vnto name, And with the Troians Brute began Warner. Albion's England, b. iii. c. 14. The culture and manurance of minds in youth hath such forrible, though unseen, operation, as hardly any length of time or contention of labour can countervail it afterwards. Bacon. On Learning, b. ii. I must begin with capacities; for the manurement of wits like that of soils, where before either the pains of tilling the charge of sowing, men use to consider what the mold vill bear, heath or grain.-Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 76. Husbandmen to make their vines bear, manure them with rine leaves, or the husks of exprest grapes, and they observe those to be most fruitful which are so manured with their -Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon iter by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 11. p. 307. In all farms too distant from any town to carry manure bom it, that is in the far greater part of those of every extensive country, the quantity of well-cultivated land must tein proportion to the quantity of manure which the farm self produces; and this again must be in proportion to the sock of cattle which are maintained upon it.-Id. Ib. MANUSCRIPT, adj. Fr. Manuscrit; It. Manoscritto; Sp. Manuscritto; Lat. Manuptum, written with the hand, (manu, and scripte, from scribere, to write.) Any thing, written with the hand. Study our manuscripts, those myriads Of letters, which have past 'twixt thee and me. Donne. Valediction to his Book. My honoured friend, Dr. Tancred Robinson, in his manuItinerary of Italy, relates the many various figures he serv'd naturally delineated and drawn on several sorts does digged up in the quarries, caverns and rocks, Florence, and other parts of Italy. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. He expended upwards of £300 in arranging and improving manuscript library at Lambeth. Porteus. The Life of Abp. Secker, p. 55. Having but one of all the Roman lyrics To feed their taste for slavish panegyrics, MENIAL, MANY, adj. Very variously written. Goth. MANY, 2. Manag; A. S. Manig, manig; MENIAL, adj.Dut. Menig; Ger. Maning, manch; Sw. Menig. I believe, Skinner, from the A. S. Ge-men-gan; Ger. Mengen, miscere, to mix; for where many are there is a certain mixture, or med'ey, of men,Cedam hominum miscela. Wachter reverses ts, and derives the verb mengen, to mix, from mene, multus vel multitudo; and Dr. Jamieson is enced that the term primarily respected mul d. Tooke affirms it to be the past part. of n, miscere, to mix, to mingle, and that it sired or associated, (for that is the effect wiring) subaud, company or any uncertain and specified number of any things. Many (Lowth) efly used with the word great before it. Douglas (p. 153) uses the expression, "A few ye, or menze." Many, or meine, or meinie, is pied to Tho so muche fole to hym com of knygtys gong & olde, If thei han clepid the housebonde man Belzebub: how Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. With many an horne, and many a route Surrey. To his Mistresse. His seruantes meniall Skelton. Why come ye not to Court? Nathless himselfe he armed all in haste, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11. Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 9. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. ii. When the merry bells ring round, Mark with what management their tribes divide, His [De Wits] train was only one man who performed all Sir W. Temple. On the United Provinces, c. 2. ject of curious speculation. - Hurd. On Chivalry, Let. 1. The will of the many, and their interest, must very often differ; and great will be the difference when they make an evil choice.-Burke. On the French Revolution. among the productive labourers, and menial servants I have classed artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, among the barren or unproductive. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 9. The Duchess marked his weary pace, Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel, Introd. A mixture or medley, of persons, or things; a sages. Many, adj. consequentially Of or pertaining to a mixed number; numerous: funspecified, an indefinite or undetermined graphica. Many is much used-prefixed. See MANIFOLD. And mani fowe in to the water, & some toward the see, anie passede ouer. A tablet, picture, or delineation of the world, or of any part of it; showing the relative situations of places on the earth; of stars in the heavens, Of which litigious famelies Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. c. 32. But in what noble fash'on he did suit Daniel. On the Death of the Earl of Devonshire. They call this bed-worke, mapp'ry, closet-warre. To disperse or scatter; and thus, to ruin or destroy; to spoil, to hurt or harm, to injure, (to murther.) And marre the wt myschef.-Piers Plouhman, p. 45. For if thou knew him out of doubt, Of thy prison that marreth thee.-Chaucer. R. of the R. This paynim hath made his preiere.-Gower. Con. A. b.vii. I trust my will to write shall match the marrs I make in it.-Ascham to Edward Raven, May 1551. For he sayeth yt they be ye marrars & distroyers of the realme.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 295. Now see for Goddes sake where Tindall hath scraped out & altred one word, in which one standeth the making and marring of all the whole matter.-Id. Ib. p. 607. But ah! my rymes too rude and rugged arre Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. |