Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: MA-NEU'VER-ING – MAN'GO-NISM
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MA-NEU'VER-ING, ppr.
Changing the position or order for advantageous attack or defense.
MAN'FUL, a. [man and full.]
- Having the spirit of a man; bold; brave; courageous.
- 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.]
- A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.
- 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.]
- A rolling press or calender for smoothing cloth.
- A name of the mangrove – which see.
MAN'GLE, v.t.1 [D. mangelen, G. mangeln, to want. Qu.]
- 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.
- 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.
- Lacerating in the act of cutting; tearing.
- Smoothing with a mangle.
MAN'GO, n.
- 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.
- 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.]