Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MA-NEU'VER-ING, ppr.

Changing the position or order for advantageous attack or defense.

MAN'FUL, a. [man and full.]

1. Having the spirit of a man; bold; brave; courageous.
2. Noble; honorable.

MAN'FUL-LY, adv.

Boldly; courageously; honorably.

MAN'FUL-NESS, n.

Boldness; courageousness.

MAN'GA-BY, n.

A monkey with naked eye-lids; the white-eyed monkey. Dict. Nat. Hist.

MAN-GA-NE'SATE, n.

A compound of manganesic acid, with a base.

MAN'GA-NESE, n.

A metal of a dusky white, or whitish gray color, very hard and difficult to fuse. It never occurs as a natural production in a metallic state. The substance usually so called is an oxyd of manganese, but not pure. Cyc. Henry.

MAN-GA-NE'SIAN, a.

Pertaining to manganese; consisting of it or partaking of its qualities. Seybert.

MAN-GA-NE'SIC, a.

Obtained from manganese; as, the manganesic acid. Henry. [Manganic is ill formed.]

MAN-GA-NE'SOUS, a.

Manganesous acid is an acid with less oxygen than manganesic acid. Henry.

MANG'CORN, n. [Sax. mengan, to mix, and corn.]

A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain. [Not used in America.]

MANGE, n. [Fr. mangeaison.]

The scab or itch in cattle, dogs and other beasts.

MAN-GEL-WUR-ZEL, n. [G. mangel, want, and wurzel, root.]

The root of scarcity, a plant of the beet kind, Beta Cycla.

MAN-GER, n. [Fr. mangeoire, from manger, to eat, L. mando.]

1. A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.
2. In ships of war, a space across the deck, within the hawse-holes, separated from the after part of the deck, to prevent the water which enters the hawse-holes from running over the deck.

MAN-GER-BOARD, n.

The bulk-head on a ship's deck that separates the manger from the other part of the deck. Mar. Dict.

MAN-GI-NESS, n. [from mangy.]

Scabbiness; infection of the mange.

MAN'GLE, n. [Dan. mangle; G. mange; D. mangel; from L. mango.]

1. A rolling press or calender for smoothing cloth.
2. A name of the mangrove – which see.

MAN'GLE, v.t.¹ [D. mangelen, G. mangeln, to want. Qu.]

1. To cut with a dull instrument and tear, or to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; applied chiefly to the cutting of flesh. And seized with fear, forgot his mangled meat. Dryden.
2. To curtail; to take by piece-meal.

MAN'GLE, v.t.²

To smooth cloth with a mangle; to calendar.

MAN'GLED, pp.

Torn in cutting; smoothed with a mangle.

MAN'GLER, n.

One who tears in cutting; one who uses a mangle.

MAN'GLING, ppr.

1. Lacerating in the act of cutting; tearing.
2. Smoothing with a mangle.

MAN'GO, n.

1. The fruit of the mango tree, a native of the East Indies, of the genus Mangifera. It is brought to us only when pickled. Hence mango is the green fruit of the tree pickled. Encyc.
2. A green muskmelon pickled.

MAN'GO-NEL, n. [Fr. mangoneau.]

An engine formerly used for throwing stones and battering walls.

MAN'GO-NISM, n.

The art of setting off to advantage. [Obs.]