<B>manhood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition or time of being a man. <BR> <I>Ex. The boy was about to enter manhood. The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth (Benjamin Disraeli).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>courage; manliness; character or qualities of a man. <BR> <I>Ex. Some civic manhood firm against the crowd (Tennyson). Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> (SYN) virility, bravery. <DD><B> 3. </B>men as a group. <BR> <I>Ex. the manhood of the United States.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the state or condition of being human; human nature. <BR> <I>Ex. Yea, Manhood hath a wider span And larger privilege of life than man (James Russell Lowell).</I> </DL>
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<B>man-hour, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one hour of work done by one man, used as a time unit in industry. <BR> <I>Ex. If progress continues, the materials used in clothing will not involve the man-hours of labor traditional in the industry (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>manhunt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a widespread search for a criminal, escaped prisoner, or hostage. <BR> <I>Ex. It ended a manhunt conducted by hundreds of persons, including about 175 state patrolmen, FBI agents, sheriffs' deputies ... (Chicago Tribune).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a dramatic entertainment based upon such a search. </DL>
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<B>mania, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a kind of insanity characterized by great excitement; form or phase of mental disorder, characterized by extremes of joy or rage, uncontrolled and often violent activity, extravagant and irregular speech, and the like, often followed by depression. It is a recurring state in manic-depressive psychosis. <DD><B> 2. </B>an unusual or unreasonable fondness; craze. <BR> <I>Ex. a mania for gardening, a mania for dancing. He has a mania for collecting old bottles.</I> </DL>
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<B>maniac, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an insane person; raving lunatic; madman. <BR> <I>Ex. His eyes rolled like that of a maniac in his fever fit (Scott).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> insane; raving. <BR> <I>Ex. a maniac world.</I> </DL>
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<B>MANIAC, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a complex electronic computer used in the development of the hydrogen bomb and in other projects. </DL>
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<B>maniacal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>insane; raving. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or characteristic of mania or a maniac. <BR> <I>Ex. His industry grew almost maniacal (Lytton Strachey).</I> adv. <B>maniacally.</B> </DL>
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<B>maniakis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a wide jeweled collar worn by the empress of the Byzantine empire in the Middle Ages. </DL>
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<B>manic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like mania. <BR> <I>Ex. to be in a manic phase.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>suffering from mania. </DL>
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<B>manic-depressive, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having or characterized by alternating attacks of mania and depression. <BR> <I>Ex. manic-depressive psychosis.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a person who has this condition. <BR> <I>Ex. The man is a manic-depressive who brawls in his manic phases (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>Manichean</B> or <B>Manichaean, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a member of a Gnostic sect, arising in Persia in the 200's A.D., compounded of Christian, Buddhistic, Zoroastrian, and other beliefs, and maintaining a theological dualism in which the body and matter were identified with darkness and evil, and the soul, striving to liberate itself, was identified with light and goodness. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Manicheans or their doctrines. </DL>
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<B>Manicheanism</B> or <B>Manichaeanism, </B>noun. =Manicheism.</DL>
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<B>Manichee, </B>noun. =Manichean.</DL>
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<B>Manicheism</B> or <B>Manichaeism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrines of the Manicheans. </DL>
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<B>manicotti, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> macaroni stuffed with cheese and baked in tomato sauce. </DL>
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<B>manicure, </B>verb, <B>-cured,</B> <B>-curing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to care for (the hands and fingernails); trim, clean, and polish (the fingernails). <BR> <I>Ex. The lady manicured her hands after working in the garden.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to trim (a hedge, grounds, or other landscaping) carefully. <BR> <I>Ex. ... showed him lounging in his weeds and his neighbors slavishly manicuring their lawns (Maclean's).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the care of the hands and fingernails, especially trimming, cleaning, and polishing the fingernails. <BR> <I>Ex. The lady gave her hands a manicure after working in the garden.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a single such treatment. <BR> <I>Ex. She went to the beauty parlor for a manicure.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=manicurist.</B> </DL>
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<B>manicurist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person whose work is caring for the hands and the fingernails. </DL>
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<B>manifest, </B>adjective, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> apparent to the eye or to the mind; plain; clear. <BR> <I>Ex. His guilt was manifest. For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest (Luke 8:17).</I> (SYN) obvious, evident, unmistakable. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to show plainly; display. <BR> <I>Ex. to manifest interest. There is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested (Mark 4:22).</I> (SYN) exhibit, disclose, evidence, reveal. <DD><B> 2. </B>to put beyond doubt; prove. <BR> <I>Ex. His dress ... manifested the economy of its owner by the number and nature of its repairs (James Fenimore Cooper).</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>to record (an item) in a ship's manifest. <DD><B> b. </B>to present the manifest of (a ship's cargo). <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a list of the cargo of a ship or aircraft. <BR> <I>Ex. The line's manifests made interesting reading (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=bill of lading.</B> <DD><B> 3a. </B>manifestation; expression. <BR> <I>Ex. Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos ... have constructed a human drama that is a moving manifest of the dark dilemma that confronted all people who were caught as witnesses to Hitler's terrible crime (Bosley Crowther).</I> <DD><B> b. </B><B>=manifesto.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Railroading.) a fast freight train; hot-shot. adv. <B>manifestly.</B> noun <B>manifestness.</B> </DL>
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<B>manifestant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who takes part in a public demonstration. </DL>
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<B>manifestation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of showing; making manifest. <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or condition of being manifested. <DD><B> 3. </B>a thing or act that shows or proves. <BR> <I>Ex. Entering the burning building was a manifestation of his courage.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a public demonstration by a government, political party, or other group, intended as a display of its power and determination to enforce some demand. <BR> <I>Ex. The manifestation planned by the party in power got off to a bad start. The principal manifestation of the British power was directed against Rangoon (H. H. Wilson).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>an occurrence or occasion in spiritualism in which a spiritual materialization is supposed to be demonstrated. <BR> <I>Ex. No manifestation occurred at the first seance.</I> </DL>
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<B>manifest destiny,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Historical.) the belief in the 1840's in the inevitable territorial expansion of the United States, especially as advocated by southern slaveholders who wished to extend slavery into new territories. </DL>
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<B>manifesto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-toes</B> or <B>-tos,</B> verb, <B>-toed,</B> <B>-toing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a public declaration of intentions, purposes, or motives by an important person or group; proclamation. <BR> <I>Ex. The emperor issued a manifesto. A Labour Government ... would (as stated in the party's election manifesto) set up a new Ministry of Social Welfare (London Times).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to put forth a manifesto. </DL>
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<B>manifold, </B>adjective, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of many kinds; many and various. <BR> <I>Ex. manifold duties. Attractions manifold (Wordsworth).</I> (SYN) varied. <DD><B> 2. </B>having many parts, features, or forms. <BR> <I>Ex. the manifold wisdom of God (Ephesians 3:10); a music strange and manifold (Tennyson). This changeful life, So manifold in cares (William Cowper).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>doing many things at the same time. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) being such in many ways. <BR> <I>Ex. a manifold fool.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a pipe with several openings for connection with other pipes. <DD><B> 2. </B>a pipe in an internal-combustion engine, connecting the cylinders in the engine with a main inlet or outlet. <DD><B> 3. </B>one of many copies; copy made by a manifolder. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Mathematics.) a topological space or surface. <BR> <I>Ex. Manifolds are objects of primary interest in present-day topology. They are spaces built by pasting together pieces that look like ordinary Euclidean space. If the dimension of the Euclidean space is n, the manifold is called n-dimensional. One way to study a manifold is to try to break it into simple pieces resembling triangles; if the procedure is successful, it is said that the manifold has been triangulated (Irving Kaplansky).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make many copies of. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make manifold; multiply. adv. <B>manifoldly.</B> noun <B>manifoldness.</B> </DL>
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<B>manifolder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a device for making copies of a letter, document, or the like, as with carbon paper. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who makes such copies. </DL>
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<B>manihot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any tropical American plant of a group of the spurge family, including the cassava and several varieties which yield a rubber. </DL>
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<B>manikin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a little man; dwarf. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=mannequin.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a model of the human body, used for teaching anatomy, surgery, or other physiological studies. Also, <B>manakin,</B> <B>mannikin.</B> </DL>
<B>Manila hemp,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a strong fiber made from the leaves of a Philippine plant, used especially for making ropes and fabrics; abaca. </DL>
