Part 6791

<blockquote>I pronounce that they are <b>man</b> and wife. <i>Book of Com. Prayer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>every wife ought to answer for her <b>man</b>. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of <i>man</i>, or <i>mon</i>, as an indefinite pronoun.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>man</b> can not make him laugh. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A <b>man</b> would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Man</i> is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, <i>man</i> child, <i>man</i> eater or <i>man</i>eater, <i>man-</i>eating, <i>man</i> hater or <i>man</i>hater, <i>man-</i>hating, <i>man</i>hunter, <i>man-</i>hunting, <i>man</i>killer, <i>man-</i>killing, <i>man</i> midwife, <i>man</i> pleaser, <i>man</i> servant, <i>man-</i>shaped, <i>man</i>slayer, <i>man</i>stealer, <i>man-stealing</i>, <i>man</i>thief, <i>man</i> worship, etc.</note>

<i>Man</i> is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ash<i>man</i>, butter<i>man</i>, laundry<i>man</i>, lumber<i>man</i>, milk<i>man</i>, fire<i>man</i>, show<i>man</i>, water<i>man</i>, wood<i>man</i>. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, <i>man</i> is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple <i>man</i>, cloth <i>man</i>, coal <i>man</i>, hardware <i>man</i>, wood <i>man</i> (as distinguished from wood<i>man</i>).

<cs><col>Man ape</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.</cd> -- <col>Man at arms</col>, <cd>a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed.</cd> -- <col>Man engine</col>, <cd>a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically <fld>(Mining)</fld>, a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages.</cd> -- <col>Man Friday</col>, <cd>a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.</cd> -- <col>Man of straw</col>, <cd>a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.</cd> -- <col>Man-of-the earth</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a twining plant (<spn>Ipom\'d2a pandurata</spn>) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root.</cd> -- <col>Man of war</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A warrior; a soldier</cd>. <i>Shak</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>See in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>To be one's own man</col>, <cd>to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another.</cd></cs>

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

<hw>Man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Manned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Manning</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; <as>as, to <ex>man</ex> a ship, boat, or fort</as>.</def>

<blockquote>See how the surly Warwick <b>mans</b> the wall ! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They <b>man</b> their boats, and all their young men arm. <i>Waller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.</def> "Theodosius having <i>manned</i> his soul with proper reflections."

<i>Addison.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To tame, as a hawk.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To furnish with a servants.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To wait on as a manservant.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<note>&hand; In "Othello," V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain, being, perhaps: To point, to aim, or to manage.</note>

<cs><col>To man a yard</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to send men upon a yard, as for furling or reefing a sail.</cd> -- <col>To man the yards</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to station men on the yards as a salute or mark of respect.</cd></cs>

<h1>Manable</h1> <Xpage=889>

<hw>Man"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Marriageable.</def><mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Manace</h1> <Xpage=889>

<hw>Man"ace</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. & v.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Menace</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Manacle</h1> <Xpage=889>