Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAN'AGE-MENT, n.

1. Conduct; administration; manner of treating, directing or carrying on; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.
2. Cunning practice; conduct directed by art, design or prudence; contrivance. Mark with what management their tribes divide. Dryden.
3. Practice; transaction; dealing. He had great management with ecclesiastics, in the view to be advanced to the pontificate. Addison.
4. Modulation; variation. All directions as to the management of the voice, must be regarded as subsidiary to the expression of feeling. Porter's Analysis.