Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAN'U-MIT, v.t. [L. manumitto; manus, hand, and mitto, to send.]

To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave. Dryden.

MAN'U-MIT-ED, pp.

Released from slavery.

MAN'U-MIT-ING, ppr.

Liberating from personal bondage.

MAN'U-MO-TIVE, a. [manus and moveo.]

Movable by hand.

MAN'U-MO-TOR, n.

A small wheel-carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it in any direction; a carriage for exercise.

MA-NUR-A-BLE, a. [from manure.]

1. That may be cultivated. This, though the original sense, is rarely or never used. The present sense of manure, would give the following signification.
2. That may be manured, or enriched by manure.

MA-NUR-AGE, n.

Cultivation. [Not used.] Warner.

MA-NUR-ANCE, n.

Cultivation. [Not used.] Spenser.

MA-NURE, n.

Any matter which fertilizes land, as the contents of stables and barn-yards, marl, ashes, fish, salt, and every kind of animal and vegetable substance applied to land, or capable of furnishing nutriment to plants.

MA-NURE, v.t. [Fr. manœuvrer, but in a different sense; Norm. mainoverer, to manure; main, L. manus, hand, and ouvrer, to work, L. operor.]

1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till. Milton. [In this sense not now used.]
2. To apply to land any fertilizing matter, as dung, compost, ashes, lime, fish, or any vegetable or animal substance.
3. To fertilize; to enrich with nutritive substances. The corps of half her senate / Manure the fields of Thessaly. Addison.

MA-NUR-ED, pp.

Dressed or overspread with a fertilizing substance.

MA-NURE-MENT, n.

Cultivation; improvement. [Little used.] Warton.

MA-NUR-ER, n.

One that manures lands.

MA-NUR-ING, n.

A dressing or spread of manure on land. Milford.

MA-NUR-ING, ppr.

Dressing or overspreading land with manure; fertilizing.

MAN'U-SCRIPT, a.

Written with the hand; not printed.

MAN'U-SCRIPT, n. [L. manu scriptum, written with the hand; It. manuscritto; Fr. manuscrit.]

A book or paper written with the hand or pen.

MAN-U-TEN'EN-CY, n.

Maintenance. [Not in use.] Sancroft.

MAN'WOR-SHIP, n.

The worship of a man; undue reverence, or extreme adulation and obsequiousness paid to a man.

MA-NY, a. [men'ny; Sax. mæneg, maneg, or menig; D. menig; G. mancher; Dan. mange; Sw. månge; Sax. menigeo, a multitude; Goth. manags, many; managei, a multitude; Russ. mnogei, many; mnoju, to multiply. It has no variation to express degrees of comparison; more and most, which are used for the comparative and superlative degrees, are from a different root.]

1. Numerous; comprising a great number of individuals. Thou shalt be a father of many nations. Gen. xvii. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 1 Cor. i. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. Ps. xxxiv. It is often preceded by as or so, and followed by so, indicating an equal number. As many books as you take, so many shall be charged to your account. So many laws argue so many sins. Milton. It is also followed by as. As many as were willing-hearted brought bracelets. Exod. xxxiv. It precedes an or a before a noun in the singular number. Full many a gem of purest ray serene. Gray.
2. In low language, preceded by too, it denotes powerful or much; as, they are too many for us. L'Estrange.

MA-NY, n.¹ [men'ny.]

A multitude; a great number of individuals; the people. O thou fond many. Shak. The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven. South.

MA-NY, n.² [men'ny; Norm. Fr. meignee.]

A retinue of servants; household. [Obs.] Chaucer.

MA-NY-CLEFT, a.

Multifid; having many fissures. Martyn.

MA-NY-COL'OR-ED, a.

Having many colors or hues. Pope.

MA-NY-COR'NER-ED, a.

Having many corners, or more than twelve; polygonal. Dryden.