Part 6790

<h1>Mammothrept</h1> <Xpage=889>

<hw>Mam"mo*thrept</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ grandmother + <?/ to nourish.]</ety> <def>A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>O, you are a more <b>mammothrept</b> in judgment. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Mammy</h1> <Xpage=889>

<hw>Mam"my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Mammies</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>A child's name for <i>mamma</i>, mother.</def>

<h1>Mamzer</h1> <Xpage=889>

<hw>Mam"zer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Heb. <ets>m\'a0mz<?/r</ets>.]</ety> <def>A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.</def> <i>Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version)</i>.

<h1>Man</h1> <Xpage=889>

<hw>Man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Men</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[AS. <ets>mann</ets>, <ets>man</ets>, <ets>monn</ets>, <ets>mon</ets>; akin to OS., D., & OHG. <ets>man</ets>, G. <ets>mann</ets>, Icel. <ets>ma&edh;r</ets>, for <ets>mannr</ets>, Dan. <ets>Mand</ets>, Sw. <ets>man</ets>, Goth. <ets>manna</ets>, Skr. <ets>manu</ets>, <ets>manus</ets>, and perh. to Skr. <ets>man</ets> to think, and E. <ets>mind</ets>. &root;104. Cf. <er>Minx</er> a pert girl.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A human being; -- opposed to<i>beast</i>.</def>

<blockquote>These <b>men</b> went about wide, and <b>man</b> found they none, But fair country, and wild beast many one. <i>R. of Glouc.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The king is but a <b>man</b>, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<--" 'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast! " [W.C. Fields] -->

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.</def>

<blockquote>When I became a <b>man</b>, I put away childish things. <i>I Cor. xiii. 11.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Ceneus, a woman once, and once a <b>man</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The human race; mankind.</def>

<blockquote>And God said, Let us make <b>man</b> in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion. <i>Gen. i. 26.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The proper study of mankind is <b>man</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The male portion of the human race.</def>

<blockquote>Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than <b>man</b> to the discharge of parental duties. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world "This was a <b>man</b>! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.</def>

<blockquote>Like master, like <b>man</b>. <i>Old Proverb.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his <b>man</b> from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, <i>man</i>, we 've no time to lose !</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>A married man; a husband; -- correlative to <i>wife</i></def>.