Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAN'GO-NIZE, v.t.

To polish for setting off to advantage. [Obs.]. B. Jonson.

MAN'GO-STAN, or MAN-GO-STEEN, n.

A tree of the East Indies, of the genus Garcinia, so called from Dr. Garcin, who described it. The tree grows to the highth of 18 feet, and bears fruit of the size of a crab apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food. Encyc.

MAN'GROVE, n.

1. A tree of the East and West Indies, otherwise called mangle, and of the genus Rhizophora. One species, the black mangle, grows in waters on the sides of rivers. The red mangrove does not grow in water. Its wood is of a deep red color, compact and heavy. The soft part of the bark of the white mangrove is formed into ropes. Encyc.
2. The name of a fish. Pennant.

MANG-Y, a. [from mange.]

Scabby; infected with the mange. Shak.

MAN'HA-TER, n. [man and hate.]

One who hates mankind; a misanthrope.

MAN'HOOD, n. [man and hood.]

1. The state of one who is a man, of an adult male, or one who is advanced beyond puberty, boyhood or childhood; virility.
2. Virility; as, opposed to womanhood. Dryden.
3. Human nature; as, the manhood of Christ.
4. The qualities of a man; courage; bravery; resolution. [Little used.] Sidney.

MAN'HUNT-ER, n.

A hunter of men.

MAN'HUNT-ING, n.

The hunting of men.

MA'NI-A, n. [L. and Gr.]

Madness.

MAN'I-A-BLE, a.

Manageable; tractable. [Not in use.] Bacon.

MA'NI-AC, a. [L. maniacus.]

Mad; raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect. Grew.

MA'NI-AC, n.

A madman; one raving with madness. Shenstone.

MA-NI'AC-AL, a.

Affected with madness.

MAN-I-CHE'AN, a.

Pertaining to the Manichees.

MAN-I-CHE'AN, or MAN-I-CHEE', n.

One of a sect in Persia, who maintained that there are two supreme principles, the one good, the other evil, which produce all the happiness and calamities of the world. The first principle, or light, they held to be the author of all good; the second, or darkness, the author of all evil. The founder of the sect was Manes. Encyc.

MAN'I-CHE-ISM, n. [supra.]

The doctrines taught, or a system of principles maintained by the Manichees. Encyc. Milner.

MAN-I-CHE'IST, n. [See Manichean.]

MAN'I-CHORD, or MAN-I-CORD'ON, n. [Fr. manichordion.]

A musical instrument in the form of a spinet, whose strings, like those of the clarichord, are covered with little pieces of cloth to deaden and soften their sounds; whence it is called the dumb spinet. Encyc.

MAN'I-CON, n.

A species of nightshade.

MAN'I-FEST, a. [L. manifestus, Ir. meanan, plain, clear; minighim, to make smooth, to polish, to explain. Clearness may be from polishing, or from opening, expanding, extending.]

1. Plain; open; clearly visible to the eye or obvious to the understanding; apparent; not obscure or difficult to be seen or understood. From the testimony, the truth we conceive to be manifest. Thus manifest to sight the god appeared. Dryden. That which may be known of God is manifest in them. Rom. i.
2. Detected; with of. Calistho there stood manifest of shame. [Unusual.] Dryden.

MAN'I-FEST, n.

An invoice of a cargo of goods, imported or laden for export, to be exhibited at the custom-house by the master of the vessel, or the owner or shipper.

MAN'I-FEST, or MAN-I-FEST'O, n. [It. manifesto; L. manifestus, manifest.]

A public declaration, usually of a prince or sovereign, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives; as, a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives. Addison. [Manifesto only is now used.]

MAN'I-FEST, v.t. [L. manifesto.]

1. To reveal; to make to appear; to show plainly; to make public; to disclose to the eye or to the understanding. Nothing is hid, which shall not be manifested. Mark iv. He that loveth me, shall be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. John iv. Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not. Shak.
2. To display; to exhibit more clearly to the view. The wisdom of God is manifested in the order and harmony of creation.

MAN-I-FEST-A'TION, n.

The act of disclosing what is secret, unseen or obscure; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; the exhibition of any thing by clear evidence; display; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation, or of his benevolence in redemption. The secret manner in which acts of mercy ought to be performed, requires this public manifestation of them at the great day. Atterbury.

MAN'IFEST-ED, pp.

Made clear; disclosed; made apparent, obvious or evident.