Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
manca |
noun |
See Mancus. |
maned |
adjective |
Having a mane. |
maneh |
noun |
A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver. |
manes |
noun pl. |
The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors. |
mange |
noun |
The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts. |
mango |
noun |
The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market., A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled. |
mangy |
superl. |
Infected with the mange; scabby. |
mania |
noun |
Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium., Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. |
manid |
noun |
Any species of the genus Manis, or family Manidae. |
manie |
noun |
Mania; insanity. |
manis |
noun |
A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin. |
manks |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the language or people of the of Man., The language spoken in the Isle of Man. See Manx. |
manly |
superl. |
Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble., In a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly. |
manna |
noun |
The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food., A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food., A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe. |
manor |
noun |
The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family., A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services. |
manse |
noun |
A dwelling house, generally with land attached., The parsonage; a clergyman’s house. |
manta |
noun |
See Coleoptera and Sea devil. |
manto |
noun |
See Manteau. |
manul |
noun |
A wild cat (Felis manul), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks. |
manus |
plural |
of Manus, The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand. |