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to discover the traces of the Goth. verb Gamalwian, con. terere, to beat, to bruise: whence with Hicks he would derive the Eng. Mell, mall, Lat. Malleus. See PALL-MALL.

MAʼLLET.

To beat, to bruise, to crush. Malleable, Fr. Malleable,

That can or may be beaten, (out in extent,) that can or may be extended or expanded (by beating.) Used met. by Bp. Taylor and Burke: pliable, manageable.

The woman first with pekois and with malles,
With great labour beat down the walles.

Lidgate. Story of Thebes, pt. iii. The they malled the horsses legges, that their mightie coursers lefte praunsynge.-Bible, 1551. Judges, c. 5.

And some had malles of lead, wherwith they gaue such strokes, that they beat all doune to the erthe before them.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 422.

great malettes of iron and stele, to confounde helmes.
Id. Ib. vol. i. c. 397.

And with mighty mal

The monster mercilesse him made fall,
Whose fall did neuer foe before behold.

The mallard is the stock from whence our tam.e breed [of
Goldsmith. Animated Nature, b. vii. c. 12.

ducks] has probably been produced.

MALMSEY, or Fr. Malvaisie; It. Mal-
MA'LVESEY. vagia; Sp. Malvasia; vinum
Arvisium, a promontory of the Isle of Chios, now
called Marvisia, or Malvisia.

With him he brought a jubbe of malvesie,
And eke another ful of fine vernage.

Chaucer. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,000.

And at night to banquet with dew (as they say) of all
maner of fruits and confections, marmelad, succad, grene-

gynger, comfiettes, sugar-plate, with malmesay & romney
burnt with sugar, synamond, & cloues, with bastarde, mus-
cadell and ipocrasie.-Tyndall. Workes, fol. 229.

1. Take him on the costard, with the hiltes of thy sword,
and then throw him into the malmesy-butte in the nexte
roome.-Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act. i. sc. 4.

MALT, v. A. S. Mealt; Dut. Moult; Ger. Malz, Sw. Malt. MALT, n. Skinner sugMA'LTSTER. gests to melt, liquefacere; and MA'LTING, n. Spelman, (in v. Brasium,) malt and mealt, q. liquefactum. Wachter objects that Also they had seruantes right well harnessed, bearynge liquefacere is not macerare, to steep or soak, but to cause to flow or become fluid, which is by no means the case with malt. Tooke derives it from mouille, the past part. of mouiller, to wet or to moisten. "Mouille, anglicized becomes mouilled, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 7. mouill'd, mould, then moult, mault, malt. Wetting or moistening of the grain is the first and necessary part, he adds, of the process in making what we therefore well term malt." This may be just, but the grain after wetting must remain to ferment, and be dried again in the kiln before it is called malt; and thus a name appropriate to an intermediate stage is used to designate the completion of the process. See BREAD, DOUGH, and LOAF.

And, there's

Another of 'em, a trim cheating souldier,
Me maul that rascal, h'as out-brav'd me twice.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Maid's Tragedy, Act ii. The prelates, as they would have it thought, are the only mawls of schism.

Milton. Reason of Church Government, b. i. c. 6.

I shall less need to instance those other particularities whereby God continues, as by so many arguments of kindDess, to sweeten our natures, and make them malleable to the precepts of love and obedience.

Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 11. His squire, by often malleations, hammerings, poundings, and threshings, might in good time be beaten out into the form of a gentleman.-Gayton. On Don Quixote, (1645,) p 67. The guide had in readiness a mallet and a chizzel, wherewith he gave them a stroke between the ears, in the joint of the neck, next unto the head, wherewith he killed the beast [the elephant] upon the sudden.

Relegh. History of the World, b. v. c. 3. s. 16.

No perjur'd villain nail'd on high,

And pelted in the pillory,

His face besmear'd, his eyes, his chops,
With rotten eggs and turnip tops.

Was e'er so maul'd.-Somervile. Happy Disappointment. When a man says gold is malleable, he means and would insinuate something more than this, that what I call gold is malleable, (though truely it amounts to no more) but would have this understood, riz. that gold, i. e. what has the real essence of gold, is malleable; which amounts to thus much, that malleableness depends on, and is inseparable from the real essence of gold.-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 10. s. 17.

Supposing the nominal essence of gold to be body of such a peculiar colour and weight, with malleability and fusibility, the real essence is that constitution of the parts of matter, on which these qualities, and their union, depend. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 6. s. 6. Tubal Cain was an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron, or the first that found the art of melting and malleating metals, and making them usefull for tools and other necessary implements.

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. v. c. 1.

Mark the effect produced on our councils by continued Insolence and inveterate hostility, we grow more malleable under their blows.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 3.

We see no connexion between the colour and the odour of a rose, the malleability, fixity, and specific gravity of gold, and the like.-Belsham. Elements of Philosophy, c. 11. s. 1. One foot in length next let the mallet be.

Cook. Hesiod. Works & Days, b. ii.

MA'LLARD. Fr. Malart, which Skinner would derive from the Dut. Mal, lascivus, and card, natura, q. d. naturâ seu indole lascivus: but the compound word does not exist in Dutch. A wild drake.

The duck and mallard first the falconer's only sport
(Of river flights the chief, so that all other sort,
They only green-fowl term) in every mere abound,
That you would think they sat upon the very ground,
Their numbers being so great.-Drayton, Poly-Olb. s. 25.
VOL. II.

Maltworm, a cant term for a tipler of mall-
liquor.

And meny mannys malt we myes wolde destrye.
Piers Plouhman, p. 11.

Gret soken hath this miller out of doute
With whete and malt, of all the land about.

not how;

Chaucer, The Reves Tale, v. 3986.

My fansie stoode in straunge conciepts, to thriue I wote
By mils, by making malt, by sheepe and eke by swyne.
Gascoigne. The Greene Knightes Farewell to Fansie.

The best mal! is tried by the hardnesse and colour, for if
it looke freshe with a yellow hew, and therto will write like
a piece of chalke, after you haue bitten a kirnell in sunder
in the middest, then you may assure your selfe that it is
dried down.-Holinshed. Description of England, c. 6.

Mall gathereth a sweetnesse to the taste, which appeareth
yet more in the wort.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 649.

Barley (as appeareth in the malting) being steeped in water
three dayes, and afterwards the water drained from it, and
the barley turned upon a drie floar, will sprout.
Id. Ib. § 647.

Afterward they take it out, and laieng it vpon the clene
floore on a round heape, it resteth so vntill it be readie to
shoote at the root end, which maltsters call comming.

Holinshed. Description of England, c. 6.

In the mean time beare with me, gentle reader, (I beseech
thee) that lead thee from the description of the plentiful diet
of our countrie, vnto the fond report of a seruile trade, or
rather from a table delicatelie furnished, into a mustie malt-
house.-Id. Ib.

1 Keep. Peace peace, thou heathen drunkard;
These English are so malt-mad, there's no medling with

'em ;
When they have a fruitful year of barly there,
All the whole island's thus.

ment than a mall-horse.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Aet ill. sc. 6. Bob. Hang him, rook, hee! why hee has no more judgB. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act i. so. 5. We may likewise learn of the mallsters the differing impressions that the barley receives according to the fewel, whether straw, wood, furze, &c. that makes the fire wherewith it is dried.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 445.

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Malt is consumed, not only in the brewery of beer and ale, but in the manufacture of low wines and spirits. In the distillery of malt-spirits, both the opportunity and the temptation to smuggle are much greater than either in a brewery or in a malt-house.-Smith. Wealth of Nat. b.v. c.2.

MALTALENT. Fr. Mal-talent, malignity, malevolence, q. d. malum talentum, ( Skinner. ) Talenté pour volonté, (Menage,) for the will (See TALENT.) Mal-talent in Menage, and 2. talentum in Du Cange.

And sore abieth she euerie dele

Her malice, and her male-talent.-Chaucer. R. of the R.
The blynd man fond borowis for all his maletalent.
The Marchantes Second Tale. Imputed to Chaucer.

So forth he went

With heavy looke and lumpish pace, that plaine
In him bewrayed great grudge and maltalent:
His steed eke seem'd t'apply his steps to his intent.
Spenser. Fuerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4.
MALTREAT, v. To treat ill; to use ill, to
behave ill towards.

Yorick indeed was never better served in his life-but it
was a little hard to maltreat him after, and plunder him
after he was laid in his grave.
Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. ii. c. 17.
Fr. Malheur; ill-fortune, mis-

MALU'RE.

chance.

I wofull wight full of malure.-Chaucer. Dreame, MALVERSATION. Fr. Malversation; mal verser en son office; to behave himself ill in his office. "Misdemeanour, misbehaviour, il conversation," (Cotgrave.)

One Gunga Govind Sing, a man turned out of his employment by Sir John Clavering for malversation in office, is made the corresponding secretary. Burke. On Mr. Fox's East India Bill.

MA'MBLING. Perhaps Mumbling, (qv.)

Far be it from us to allow lukewarmnesse in the matters of God; a disposition which the Almighty professeth so much to hate, that he could rather be content the angell of the church of Laodicea should be quite cold, than in such a mambling of profession.

Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b. ii. s. 2.

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MAMMER, v.
MA'MMERING, N.
MA'MORY.

The commentators on Shakespeare say

To hesitate, to stand in suspense. Perhaps mumbling or muttering, as if not knowing what to say or do."

Mr. Steevens produces the instance of mamorie. And for none other cause veraily, but for his sounde and constaunt profession, by ye which whan the people wer in a wauering and mammering what he was, Peter being as the voice of al the Apostles together, pronounced the setece, that Jesus was the Sonne of the liuing God.-Udal. Luke, c. 6. ! She stode still in a doubte & in a mameryng which way she might take, and fayne woulde take the best. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 760.

Thys deuise though it might serue in England myghte not haue serued well in many places of Almayne that are peruerted synce, not euen while ye matter was in a mamering before the change was made.-Id. Ib. p. 911.

I wonder in my soule

What you would aske me, that I should deny,

Or stand so mam'ring on?—Shakes. Othello, Act iii. sc. 3 My quill remained (as men say) in a mamorie, quivering in my quaking fingers, before I durst presume to publishe these my fantasies.-H. Wotton. A Courtlie Controversie of Cupid's Cautels, &c. 4to. 1578. To the Reader. MAMMET. See MAWMET.

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MAM

MA'MMOCK, v.
МА/ММОСК, П.
Welsh.
Maum,-in various counties, is to handle, or
smear about any thing eatable, (Grose.)

Skinner derives from the

To mammock (says Steevens) is to cut in pieces,

or to tear.

Whan mamockes was your meate
With mould bread to eat

Ye would none other geate.-Skelton. Boke of Colin Clout. Hee did so set his teeth, and teare it. Oh, I warrant how he mammockt it.-Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act i. sc. 3.

And by the hopeful hand of brave Black Edward wan
Proud Poictiers, where King John he valiantly subdu'd,
The miserable French and there in mammocs hew'd.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 17.

MA'MMON, n. Į See the quotation from Tyn-
MA'MMONIST. dall.

And of mammonaes money mad hym many frendes.
Piers Plouhman, p. 170.
Mammon is riches or aboundance of goods.
Tyndall. Workes, p. 233.
When I'd arrive the very top of all,
That the mistaken mammonists miscall,
And think their chiefest blessings, wealth and wit.
Brome. A Paraphrase upon Ecclesiastes, c. 1.
The great mammonist would say, he is rich that can main-
tain an army.-Bp. Hall. The Righteous Mammon.

MAN, n.
MAN, v.

MA'NABLE.

MA'NFUL.

MA'NFULLY.

MA'NFULNESS.
MA'NHOOD.
MA'NKIND, adj.
MANKIND, n.
MAINLESS.
MA'NLESSLY.
MA'NLY.
MA'NLINESS.
MA'NLING.
MA'NNICKEN
MA'NNING, n.
MA'NNISH.

Goth. Manna; A. S. Man, mon; Dut. Ger. and Sw. Man. In the A. S. also Mag; from the Goth. and A. S. Mag-an, to be able or strong. Mag-en, dropping the termination, leaves mag; mag-en, magn, man, (by the mere change of And a into a,) gives man. Wachter observes, that the name is, in the opinion of all etymologists, derived from the powers or faculties of body and of mind with which man has been furnished by Nature above all other animals; although, he adds, a MA'NNISHNESS. dispute may arise concerning the specific source. The Lat. Vir has its application for a similar reason. See VIRILE. Man is in common speech opposed, by sex, to woman; by age, to boy; by kind, to beast.

Manable, equivalent to the Lat. Viripotens. Manly, or manlike,-like a man, becoming, fitting or suiting a man; that is, strong, robust, fearless; with the courage, fortitude, dignity, of, or belonging to, man.

Man is used alone for man-servant.

Man is used in composition; manqueller,—a killer, slayer, slaughterer, &c.

Mankind, the kind of man, is used in old writers as opposed to woman-kind; and to denote qualities opposite to feminine.

Mannish,-human, proper to the human kind; opposed to womanish, or feminine; and when applied to woman,-not proper to woman, unbecoming her sex.

This men wende aboute wyde, & mon founde heo non,
Bute faire contre & wylde bestes mony on.
R. Gloucester, p. 14.
Wen ge habbeth forme of men, beth men on alle wise,
And turneth gour hond to menhede.-Id. p. 101.
Slou to fygte, & quick to fle, & that nys non manhede.
Id. p. 455.
Vor what he ath manlyche bygonne, he yt ath byleuede
Wommanlyche, as vor defaute of wyt of hys heuede.
Id. 457.

And so gret manqualyn, that mony on vnburyed lay.
Id. p. 416.
Muche was the manslagt, that there was ydo.-Id. p. 394.
With oute bitter wonde

WI oute mercement oth manslaugh.-P. Plouhman, p. 73.
At that tymc wele inouth the Frankis manly sped.
R. Brunne, p. 197.
& now er thise bot mansbond, rascaile of refous.-Id. p.115.
But mannes sone hath not where he schall reste his hed.
Wiclif. Matthew, c. 8.

MAN

But the sonne of max hathe not where on to rest his heed.
Bible, 1551. Matthew, c. 8.
Matheu is understondun bi man, for he dwellith princi-
pali about the manheed of Crist.-Wiclif. Prol. to Matthew.

And mankynde that was slayn bi foure deethis, should be
quikned bi the prechyng of them.-Id. Ib.

Walke ghe and stonde ghe in the feith, do ghe manli, and
be ghe coumfortid in the Lord.-Id. 1 Cor. c. 16.

But whanne the benygnyte and the man heed of oure
Sauyour God appeared.-Id. Titus, c. 3.

After that the kindnes & loue of our Sauiour God to man-
warde appeared.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

But sente a manqueller and commaundide that Jones
heed were brought in a disch.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 6.

He was a mansleer fro the begynnyng.-Id. Jon, c. 8.
And he delyuerede to hem hym that for mansleynge &
sedicioun was sent into prisoun, whom thei axiden.
Id. Luke, c. 23.

Ne great emprises for to take in hand,
Sheding of blood, ne manfull hardinesse.
Chaucer. The Complaint of the Black Knight.
In goodness of gentil manlich speech, in wit, and in good
reason of sentence, he passeth al other makers.
Id. The Testament of Loue, b. iii.
Victory, courage, force, and hardinesse,
Good auenture and famous manlinesse.

A Ballad. Imputed to Chaucer.
The proverbe sayeth, "for to don sinne is mannish, but
certes for to persevere long in sinne is worke of the divel."
Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

Fy mannish, fy; O nay by God I lie;
Fy fendliche spirit, for I dare well telle,
Though thou here walke, thy spirit is in helle.
Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5202.
Of this cursed sinne of ire cometh eke manslaughter. And
understondeth wel that homicide (that is manslaughter) is
in divers wise.-Id. The Persones Tale.

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Then Lisias seinge the discomfortynge of hys men, and the man-lynes of the Jewes, howe they were readye, either to lyue or to dye like men. He went into Antioche and chose oute men of warre.-Bible, 1551. Machabees, c. 4.

The French have a great host in Piedmont, and have won
divers cities, towns, and castles, and have well manned them.
Ascham. Letter to College Friends, 1551.

But like holy spiritual fathers borne againe of God and the
spirite, they resyst manfully first and a great while.
Sir T. More. Workes, p. 557.
Daniell, then Byshoppe of Wynchestre, sent this Wene-
fride to Rome with his letters of commendacio for his man-
fulnesse ther shewed.- Bale. English Votaries, pt. i.

Here are shewed ii. maners of maquelling, one done wyl.
lingly and of set purpose, the other vnwyllingly. For euen
he that killeth with ye hand may before God be no man-
quellar.—Bible, 1551. Deuteronomy, c. 19. Note.

Vnderstandynge this, how that the law is not geven vnto a righteous man, but vnto the vnrighteous and disobedient, &c.; to them that defyle themselues with mankynde, to men-stealers, to lyars, &c.-Id. 1 Timothy, c. 1.

Notwithstandyng, the midwyues feared God and dyd not as the Kyng of Egipte commaunded them: but saued the men-children.-Id. Exodus, c. 1.

Is it a tyme to receaue siluer, and to receaue garments,
oliue trees, vineyards, oxen, shepe, men-seruants, and
mayde seruants?-Id. 2 Kings, c. 5.

And Clifford, whom no danger yet could dare :
The walls of York first having throughly mann'd,
There plac'd the king.

Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret.
My ships ride in the bay
Ready to disembogue, tack'led, and mann'd
Even to my wishes.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Knight of Malta, Act i. sc. 1.
Otr. That's woman's ripe age; as full as thou art
At one and twenty: she's manable, is she not?

Id. The Maid of the Mill, Act ii. sc. 1.
I kil'd a man, whose death I much repent,
But yet I slew him manfully in fight,
Without false vantage, or base treachery.
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. sc. 1

Alb. What's the matter, sir?

Lear. Ile tell thee: Life and death! I am ashami
That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus.
Shakespeare. K. Lear, Act i. sc. 4
Gond. So, so, 'tis as 't should be, are women grown so
mankind? Must they be wooing?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman Hater, Act iii. sc.2
Ter.
O you, whose minds are good,
And have not fore'd all mankind from your brests;
That yet have so much stock of vertue left,

To pittie guiltie States, when they are wretched:
Lend your soft eares to heare, and eyes to weepe,
Deeds done by men, beyond the acts of furies.

B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act v. sc. 10.

But to return to the armada, which we left anchored at Calais from thence, as Sir Walter was wont prettily to say, they were suddenly driven away with squibs, for it was no more but a stratagem of fire boats, manless, and sent upon them by the favour of the wind in the night time, that did put them in terrour, as they cut their cables, and left their anchors in the sea.-Bacon. Of a War with Spain.

She [Andromache] saw her Hector slaine, and bound
T' Achilles chariot; manlessly drag'd to the Grecian fleet.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xxii.

Elizabeth, the next, this falling sceptre hent;
Digressing from her sex, with manlike government,
This island kept in awe. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 17.
Under his forming hands a creature grew,
Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair,
That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now
Mean.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. viii.

My friends,

The boy hath taught vs manly duties: Let vs
Finde out the prettiest dazied-plot we can,
And make him with our pickes and partizans
A grave.

Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 3.
Delicious nymph, suppose there were
No honour, or report,

Yet manliness would scorn to wear

The time in idle sport.-Daniel. Ulysses and the Syren.

A man [Horace] so gracious, and in high favour with the Emperour, as Augustus often called him his wittie manling, (for the littleness of his stature ;) and (if we may trust antiquity) had design'd him for a Secretary of Estate; and invited him to the place, which he modestly praied off, and refused.-B. Jonson. Discoveries.

She's as much too manish, as he too womanish.

Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Cure, Act ii. sc. 1. But alas; the painted faces, and manishnesse, and monstrous disguisednese of one sex.-Bp. Hall. Impresse of God.

Rut. Be so, and no more, you man-huxter.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Custom of the Country, Act iv. sc. 1.
Thom. What's the matter?
Whither go all these men-menders, these physicians.
1d. Monsieur Thomas, Act ii. sc. 1.
Cain (envious of the acceptation of his brother's prayer
and sacrifice) slew him, making himself the first manslayer,
and his brother the first martyr.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 5. s. 1.
Instant prepare me, on the neighbouring strand,
With twenty chosen mates a vessel mann'd.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. iv. Present order was given for the victualling and manning of ten ships to be sent him.-Oldys. Life of Sir W. Ralegh.

When the proud steed shall know why man restrains
His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ;
When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod,
Is now a victim, and now Egypt's God:
Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend
His actions', passions', beings', use and end.

Pope. Essay on Man, Epist. 1.

For models, made to mend our kind,
To no one clime should be confin'd;
And manly virtue like the sun,
His course of glorious toils should run;
Alike diffusing in his flight,
Congenial joy, and life. and light.

Swift. The Birth of Manly Virtue.
At Barcelona arm'd
For zeal or hire, full many vessels swarm'd
Well mann'd for fight.-Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxxii.
We are taught to follow the heavenly artist, step by step,
first in the production of the inanimate elements, next of
vegetable, and then of animal life, till we come to the
masterpiece of the creation, man endued with reason and
intellect. Horne. Works, vol. iv. Dis. 1.

Declare, wise Augur, if the Gods decree
The same perdition shall be hurl'd on me,
Which fain'd Aloëus' impious sons befel,
When slain by Phoebus, and condemn'd to hell.
Meantime escape, or manfully withstand,
Vain Seer, the fury of this vengeful hand.
Fawkes. Apollonius Rhodius. Argon.

In glaring Chloe's man-like taste and mien,
Are the gross splendours of the tulip seen:
Distant they strke, inelegantly gay.

To the near view no pleasing charms display.

Shenstone. To a Lady. Oct. 7, 1736.

And kiss'd her thoughtless babes with many a tear,
And clasp'd them close, in sorrow doubly dear;
Whilst her food husband strove to lend relief,
In all the silent manliness of grief.

Goldsmith. The Deserted Village.

Tis meaner (cries the manling) to command
A conquering host, or save a sinking land,
Than furl fair Flavia's fan, or lead a dance,
Or broach new-minted fashions fresh from France.
Warton. Fashion. A Satire.

Rous'd by war's alarms
Forth rush'd the madding mannikin to arms.

Beatlie. Battle of the Pigmies & Cranes. Manslaughter is therefore thus defined, the unlawful Elling 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.

MA'NACLE, v. Į Fr. Manicle; It. Manette; MA'NACLE, R. Lat. Manica; from manus, the hand.

See To FETter.

To bind or fasten the hands; generally, to fasten, to bind.

Who can read

In thy pale face, dead eye, or lenten shute,
The liberty thy ever giving hand

Hath bought for others, manacling it self
In gyves of parchment indissoluble?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Honest Man's Fortune, Act iv. sc. 1.

Tho' were they manicled behinde our backe,
Another's fist can serve our fees to take.

Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 5. of. Ebrews, the pris'ner Samson here I seek. Chor. His manacles remark him, there he is.

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Oft times nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just right Well manag'd. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. viii. Young men, in the conduct, and mannage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.-Bacon. Ess. Youth & Age.

Not adverting, that the first constitution and order of things is not in reason and nature manageable by such a law, which is most excellently adequated and proportioned to things fully setled.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 346.

Many a good husband overtasks himself; and undertakes more than his eye can overlook, or his hand sway; and therefore is fain to trust to the management of others as it speeds thereafter.-Bp. Hall. Fast Sermon, April 5, 1628. Justice and Charitie. Justice, that requires both authoritie in the menager, and innocence in the menaging. Id. The Impresse of God, pt. ii. Yet, though all were blamed, none were punished for the il managery and conduct of the expedition. Baker. Charles I. an. 1625.

And let the goodness of the managing Rase out the blot of foul attaining quite. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iv. The proof is but too full and manifest from the whole manage of the late accursed rebellion.-South, vol. i. Ser. 10.

This disagreement may be imputed to the greater or less exactness or manageableness of the instruments employed.

Boyle.

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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 in

firmities.-Wood. Athena Oxon. vol. ii.

If the man of taste, however, will be pleased to mark how the genius of a Virgil has managed a war after a Homer, he will certainly be tired with a dozen of epic poems in the same strain. Mickle. Dissertation on the Luciad, &c.

Are such men rare? perhaps they would abound,
Were occupation easier to be found,
Were education, else so sure to fail,

Conducted on a manageable scale.-Cowper. Tirocinium. [Scripture] gives something more than obscure intimations, that the holy angels are employed upon extraordinary occasions in the affairs of men, and the management of this sublunary world.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 11.

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 manchet floure, and thre score quarters of mele. Bible, 1551. 3 Kinges, c. 4. He hath imagined little prety thinne manchetes, that shine thorow, and seeme more lyke to be made of paper or fine parcheinent then of wheate floure. Tyndall. Workes, p. 324.

Of bread made of wheat we haue sundrie sorts dailie brought to the table, whereof the first and most excellent is the mainchel, which we commonlie call white bread; and our good workemen deliuer commonlie such proportion, that of the flower of one bushell with another they make fortie cast of manchet, of which euerie lofe weigheth eight ounces into the ouen and six ounces out as I have beene informed.-Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 6. Char. Reach me the books down I read yesterday, and make a little fire, and get a manchet.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Elder Brother, Act ii. sc. 4. Would monarchs relish what they eat; "Tis toil that makes the manchet sweet.

Cotton. The Snail and the Gardener.

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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.

Such a dispensation [the Jewish] is a pupillage, and a slavery, which he [man] earnestly must desire to be redeemed and mancipated from.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 15.

MA'NCIPLE. An officer (says Mr. Tyrwhitt)

who has the care of purchasing victuals for an inn of court; and, with Skinner, he derives it from the Lat. Manceps, (see MANCIPATE,) which, in Mid-Latin, was a name given to various characters. See in Du Cange.

A gentil manciple was there of a temple,
Of which Achatours mighten take ensample
For to ben wise in bying of vitaille.

Chaucer. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, v. 569.
MANDATE.
MANDA'TOR.
MANDATORY.
MA'NDMENT.

AND.

Fr. Mandat; It. and Sp. Mandato; Lat. Mandatum, from mandare, i. e. in manus dare; to give into the hands of another. See COMMAND.

A charge given, an order or direction given; an order, a precept.

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And Jhesus answeride to him that the first maundement of all is here thou Israel thi Lord God is oo God; and thou schalt love thi Lord God of al thin herte, and of al thi myght, this is the first maundement. And the seconde is lyk to this, thou schalt love thy neygbore as thi silf, ther is noon othere maundement grettere thaune these. Wiclif. Mark, c. 12.

And he wold feeche a feined mandement,
And sompne hem to the chapitre bothe two,
And pill the man, and let the wench go.

Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 6941.

Aske whatso-else I haue to giue, Thous maunde it for a kis.

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, And will return to Venice.-Shakes. Othello, Act iv. sc. 1. A person is said to be a client to his advocate, but a master and mandator to his proctor.-Ayliffe. Parergon.

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.

nomination of the bishop to be consecrated.
It doth not appear that he usurped more than a mandatory
Abp. Usher. On Ordination.

But, oh! how weakly does Sedition build!
For lo! the royal mandate issues forth,
Dashing at once their treason, zeal, and mirth!

Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel.
Whilst all their mandates as sound law succeed,
With fools who write, and greater fools who read.

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. Xλawa. A mantle, (qv.)

Thus put he on his arming trusse, fair shooes upon his
feet,

About him a mandilion, that did with buttons meet,
Of purple, large, and full of folds, curl'd with a warmeful
nap,

A garment that gainst cold in nights, did soldiers use to
wrap.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. x.

[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.

MANDRAGE. MANDRA'GORA. MANDRAKE.

Fr. Mandragore; It. Mandragola; Sp. Mandragora, mandracula; Lat. Mandragoras; Gr. Mavdpayopas, from μavdpa, spelunca, and perhaps αγορείν, 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 man

dragoras 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, resembles the shape of a man, which is a conceit not to be the first from great antiquity, conceiveth the root thereof made out by ordinary inspection, or any other eyes than such as regarding the clouds, behold them in shapes conformable to preapprehensions.-Brown. Fulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 6.

MANDUCATE, v. Lat. Manducare, from MANDUCATION. mandere, to chew. Man

ducatur; 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 manducales 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 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.-Waler land. Works, vol. vii. p. 141. MANE, (of horse, &c.) Dut. Maene; Ger. Mane; Sw. Maan. Minshew derives nando, 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 μavos, 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.

no where deliuered in holy scripture.

-a ma

May it not be from A. S. Mægen, magn, main, strength?

And the weake wanton Cupid
Shall from your necke vnloose his amorous fould,
And like a dew drop from the lyon's mane,
Be shooke to ayrie ayre.

Shakespeare. Troylus & Cressida, Act iii. sc. 3. This forest sometimes bredde white bulles, long maned like lyons. Stow. A Description of England, &c. p. 3

But when his foe lies prostrate on the plain,
He sheathes his pawes, uncurls his angry mane,
And, pleas'd with bloodless honours of the day,
Walks over and disdains the inglorious prey.

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther.

A lion she before in mane and throat, Behind a dragon, in the midst a goat.

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Cooke. Hesiod. The Thegony. MANGE, v. Fr. Manger, mangeoire; It. MA'NGER. Mangiare, mangiatoja, from the MANGERY. Lat. Mandere, to eat. Manger, that out of which (cattle) eat or feed. Ich wot wel quath Hunger. what syknesse gow aileth, Ye have manged overe muche. that maketh gow bi syke. Piers Ploukman, p. 142.

Alle the while that Gamelyn

Had held his mangerie

His brothir thought on him bewreke,

With his false trecherie.

Don Carlos his pockets so amply had fill'd, That his mange was quite cur'd.

Rochester. Trial of the Poels for the Bays. MA'NGLE, v. MANGLER. the Lat. Mancus, (Dut. Manch, Ger. Manc.) Junius,-from the Dut. Manchen, mencken, mincken, to mince. It may be a din. or from the engine called a of maim, (qv.). 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.

Minshew and Skinner,-from

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 Buttle 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. Virg

Since after thee may rise an impious line,
Coarse manglers of the human face divine,
Paint on, till fate dissolve thy mortal part,
And live and die the monarch of thy art.

Tickell. To Sir Godfrey Kneller. MANGLE, v. Ger. Mangen, mangeln ; Dut. MANGLE, n. Manghelen het liin-waet; Ger. Mangel-bret, Dut. Manghel-stock, cignum politorium. (See Wachter, and Kilian.) It. Manga

nare, mangano, manganaro.

A kinde of presse to presse buckrom, fustian or died linnen cloth, to make it haue a luster or glassc," (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, whercout stones, old iron, and great arrows were violently darted, (Cotgrave.)

Mid mangenels & ginnes hor either to other caste.
R. Gloucester, p. 566.
& reised a mangnel, to kast vnto the toure.
R. Brunne, p. 125.
Who might defence ayenst him make?
Without stroke it mote be take,

Of trepeget or mangonell.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.
MANGONIZE, v. Į Fr. Mangonisme, man-
MANGONISM.
gonner; Low Lat. Man-

The Cokes Tale of Gamelyn. Imputed to Chaucer. gonare; Lat. Mangonizare, from mango, a slave dealer, who received this name, quia re payyavų, sive fuco, colorem falsum inducit mancipiis, ut carius vendat, (Vossius.)

The pamper'd horse is seldome seene in breath,
Whose maunger makes his greace (oftimes) to melt.

Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. 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.

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Euer to remayne

In wretched beggery

And maungy misery.

Skelton. Duke of Albany and the Scoltes. 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.

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To give a fresh hue or appearance.

Tue. No, no, you mangonizing slave, I will not part from B. Jonson. Poelaster, Act iii. sc. 1.

'hem.

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.

MANIA.
MANIAC.
MANIACAL.

plied to

Fr. Manie, maniaque; It. and Sp. Munia; Gr. Maria, from μaiveolai, to rage or rave.

And as to the will of Man, it is that which is 100st maniable and obedient as that which admitteth most medicines to cure and alter it.-Bacon. Helps for Intellectual Powers.

MANIFEST, v. MA'NIFEST, adj. MANIFEST, or MANIFESTO, n. MANIFE'STABLE.

Fr. Manifester; It. Manifestare; Sp. Manifestar; Lat. Manifestare. Propriè (says Vossius) manifestum in quo manus fendunt, hoc est, incidunt, sive quod manibus festim, seu cito occurrit; what we can quickly lay our hands upon; easily found.

MANIFESTATION. MA'NIFESTLY.

To find or discover promptly; to discover or disclose, to declare, to show, to make known or evident.

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 mangfestly and well.-Bible, 1551. Deut. c. 27.

Synuyng 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-Millon. 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. s.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 maniBrown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 17.

festo or evidence of their virilities.

I but accus'd, you doom'd: and yet he dy'd,
Convine'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. Observer, No. 117.

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Raging or raving madness; furious or excessive various kinds. insanity.

And in his gere for all the world he ferd
Nought only like the lovers maladie
Of Ereos, but rather ylike manie,
Engendred of humours melancolike,
Beforne his hed in his celle fantastike.

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. MA'NIABLE. Fr. Maniable,

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His puissant armes about his noble brest,
And many-folded shield he bound about his wrest.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3.

He sees the face of right t' appear as manifold
As are the passions of uncertain man;
Who puts it in all colours, all attires,
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

Dyer. The Fleece, b. ii.

And trials manifold. MA'NIPLE. 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 March on well ranck'd, and marshall'd for a warre, Not in loose maniples, but ready all

To stand, or giue a charge.-May. Lucan, b. x. sig. T. 5. Fool! he sees not the firm root, out of which we all grow, though into branches; nor will beware until he see our small divided maniples cutting through at every angle of his ill-united and unwieldy brigade.

MANNA. MA'NNAED.

Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing. Hebrew. See the quotation from Bible.

Mannaed,--honied.

And whan that thei for hunger plaine, The mighty God began to rayne Manna fro heuen downe to grounde, Wherof that eche of hem hath founde His foode.

Gower. Con. A. b. v.

And the house of Israel called it man. And it was lyke unto coriander seede, & whyte & ye tast of it was lyke vnto wafers made with honye.-Bible, 1551. Exodus.

-Though his tongue

Now, Philos, see how mannerly your curre,
Your well-taught dog that hath so many trickes,
Devoures your dinner.

Browne. The Shepheard's Pipe, Ecl. 6. Others to amend that absurdity, and yet out of a piece of mannerliness and respect, as they think to God, though they deny this universal soul or form informing of the whole universe, yet without any sufficient ground have devised several systems of the universe-Hale. Orig. of Man. p. 34. This did wonderfully concerne the might and mannerhood of the kingdome, to haue fermes, as it were of a standard, sufficient to maintaine an able body out of penurie. Bacon. King Hen. VII. p. 74. Well may they [the Dutch] boast themselves an ancient

nation;

For they were bred ere manners were in fashion:
And their new commonwealth has set them free
Only from honour and civility.

Dryden. Satire on the Dutch, (1662.)
Mufti.-I have taken you in the manner and will have
the law upon you.-Id. Don Sebastian, Act i.
For songs and verses mannerly obscene,
That can stir nature up by springs unseen,
And, without forcing blushes, warm the queen.

Rochester. Horace, b. i. Sat. 10. An Allusion.

Nor thee, his [Spenser's] ancient master, laughing sage,
Chaucer, whose native, manners-painting verse,
Well moralized, shines through the Gothic cloud
Of time and language o'er thy genius thrown.

Thomson. Summer.

Then know thyself, the human mind survey, The use, the pleasure will the toil repay. Hence inspiration plans his manner'd lays, Hence Homer's crown, and, Shakespeare, hence thy bays. Grainger. Solitude. Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1.

As I am satisfied nothing ought to be admitted from beginning to end, which can provoke comparisons, I revolt with indignation from the idea of a lady of fashion being trammelled in the trickery of the stage, and taught her airs and graces, till she is made the mere fac-simile of a mannerist.-Observer, No. 102.

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.

Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.

And each, for some base interest of his own,
With Flattery's manna'd lips assail the throne.

Mickle. Camoens. Luciad, b. ix. MANNER, v. Fr. Manière; It. Maniera; MANNER, n. Sp. Manera, modus agendi MA'NNERISM. aut loquendi. - From the MA'NNERIST. Fr. Main, the hand, was MA'NNERLY, adj. formed manier, to handle or MANNERLY, ad. manage, and thence manière, MANNERLINESS, a mode of managing: exMANNERHOOD. tended from action to speech, (Wachter.) Chaucer writes," a maner Latin, a maner love-drinke, a maner rime;" and our common translation of the Bible, Lev. vii. 23, reads no manner fat;" but in ver. 26, “no manner of blood." Applied to

The mode or method, fashion or form; the sort or kind; occasional or customary;-to the habit or behaviour; to the general mode of action, conduct, or management; the habits, the morals. To take in the manner,-see MAINOUR, and the quotation below from Dryden.

Mannerism is not uncommon in speech. -And in this maner y wys Corineus bi wan Cornewaile, to bym and to hys. R. Gloucester, p. 21. And Mede ys manered after him.-Piers Plouhman, p. 25. Eftsoon he sente othere servauntes, moo thanne the first and in lyke manere they diden to hem.

Wiclif. Matthew, c. 21.

And sikerly she was of grete disport
And ful plesant, and amiable of port,
And peined hire to contrefeten chere
Of court, and ben estatelich of manere.
Chaucer. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, v. 146.

A maner Latin corrupt was hire speche
But algate therby was she understonde.

id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4939 Your medeling mastres is manerles

Skelton. The Boke of Philip Sparow. Yea Antiochus hymselfe was sory in hys mynde for Onias, so that it pytyed hym and he wept, rememberyng his sobernes & manerige behauioure.-Bible, 1551. Machab. c. 4.

Eate the thing that is set before the manerly as it becommeth a man.-Id. Jesus Sirach, c. 31.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 3. MANOEUVRE, v. Low Lat. Manu-opera

MANOEUVRE, N. }rius, or

and

opera.

the hand; manus, 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 or adroitly.

Sir George Rodney, who had eagerly watched and waited for this opportunity, now mauœuvred the fleet with such skill, as to gain the windward of the enemy during the night, and entirely to preclude their retreat.

Belsham. History of Gl. 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 masterly manoeuvre proved decisive.—Id. Ib.

Here I could not shake off old habits, so far as to resist the temptation of getting into a post-chaise for the last stage, by which manoeuvre, I took the credit of having travelled like a gentleman.-Observer, No. 93.

MA'NOR. MANNERY. MANO'RIAL.

Fr. Manoir; Bar. Lat. Maneria vel manerium, from the Lat. Manere; q. d. mansio, the mansion, (Skinner.) Vossius calls it-habitatio, cum certâ agri portione; a dwelling, with a certain portion of land. See the quotations from Bacon and Blackstone.

In the iii. yer of his reign in Septembre was bore to the kyng a sone cleped Richard, att Oxenford in his manoire, wher is now the white freres.-R. Gloucester, p. 484. Note.

And I dare saine, and swere it wele,
That trouth himselfe, ouer al and al,
Had chose his maner principall

In her, that was his resting place.-Chaucer. Dreame. Out of which usage, the court barons took their beginning, and the lords of towns and manours gained the privilege of holding plea and jurisdiction within those their territories over their tenants and followers.

Spelman. Of the Ancient Government of England. While freesing Matho, that for one leane fee Wonte terme ech terme the terme of Hilarie, May now insted of those his simple fees, Get the fee-simples of fayre manneryes.

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,
Who purchas'd at an easy rate,
Your manor-house and fine estate.

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, held by lords or great personages; who kept in their own hands so much land as was necessary for the use of their families, which were called terræ-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. MA'NSION. MA'NSION, v. MA'NSIONRY.

Low Lat. Mansus; Fr. Mansionner, a dweller, inhabitant, abider; one that hath a mansion in a place, (Cotgrave.) Lat. Mansio, from manere, to stay or abide. See MANOR; also Manse, in Jamieson; and Mansus, 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 tounTM A mile or two vnto a mansioun, Builded full gaie.

Chaucer. Testament of Creseide.

In woods, in waues, in warres, she wonts to dwell,
And will be found with perill and with paine;
Ne can the man that moulds in ydle cell
Unto her happy mansion attaine.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4.

Bane. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting Barlet [Martlet] does approue, By his loued mansonry, that the heauen's breath Smells wooingly here. Shakes. Macbeth, Act i. sc. 6. Visible as the clouds of heaven, and other meteors; as also the rest of the creatures mansioning therein. Mede. Paraphrase of St. Peter, (1642,) p. 16. Sun-burnt and ragged, on he fares, At last the mansion-house appears, Timely relief for all his cares.

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. Į Fr. Mansuet, mansuétude; It. MANSU'ETUDE. Mansuétudiné; Lat. 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. Thou louer true, thou maiden mansuete.

Letter of Cupid. Imputed to Chaucer. She said eke, she was fain with him to mete; And stode forth muet, milde, and mansuette.

Chaucer. Troilus & Creseide, b. v. The remedie ayenst ire, is a vertue that cleped is mansu etude, 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 Governorr, b. i. c. 25.

Pliny affirmeth it [unicorn] is a fierce and terrible creature; Vartomannus, a tame and mansuele 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.

MANTEAU.

MA'NTO.

MA'NTUA.

Steevens; in Warton's Milton. Mansus.

Immediately from the Fr. Manteau, a cloak; (see MANTLE;) and applied to

A covering or upper garment or vest; a gown

Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1. (worn by women.)

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