man 
3. An individual of the human race ; a human 
being ; a person : as, all men are mortal. 
For he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak 
to him. 1 Sam. xxv. 17. 
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. Mark iv. 23. 
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, 
As a nose on a man's face. 
Shak., T. G. of V., ii. 1. 142. 
A man would expect to find sonic antiquities. 
Addison, Kemarks on Italy. 
4. Generically, the human race; mankind; hu- 
man beings collectively: used without article 
or plural : as, man is born to trouble ; the rights 
of man. 
But he deyde with-ynne v yere after he was wedded, and 
lefte a sone, the feirest creature of man that was formed. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), it 186. 
Man being not only the noblest creature in the world, 
but even a very world in himself. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 9. 
All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, 
His chief delight and favour. Milton, f. L., iii. 663. 
Specifically 5. A male adult of the human 
race, as distinguished from a woman or a boy; 
one who has attained manhood, or who is re- 
garded as of manly estate. 
Ther-with departed the kynge Ventres and his company, 
that was a moche man of body, and a gode knyght and 
youge, of prime barbe. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), 1. 117. 
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the 
woman for the man. 1 Cor. xi. 9. 
All the men present signed a paper, desiring that a pic- 
ture should be painted and a print taken from it of her 
Royal Highness. Gremlle, Memoirs, Sept. 3, 1818. 
At Cambridge and eke at Oxford, every stripling is ac- 
counted a Man from the moment of his putting on the 
gown and cap. 
Gradus ad Cantab., p. 75, quoted in College Words. 
6. Ill an emphatic sense, an adult male pos- 
sessing manly qualities in an eminent degree ; 
one who has the gifts or virtues of true man- 
hood. 
Grace & good maners makythe a man. 
Boolce of Precedence (E. E. T. 8., extra ser.X i. 70. 
I dare do all that may become a man; 
Who dares do more is none. 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 7. 46. 
A combination and a form, indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To give the world assurance of a man. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 62. 
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ! 
The rest is all but leather or prunella. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iv. 203. 
7. The qualities which characterize true man- 
hood; manliness. 
Methoughthe bare himself in such a fashion, 
So full of man, and sweetness in his carriage. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, it 1. 
8. An adult male considered as in some sense 
appertaining to or under the control of another 
person; a vassal, follower, servant, attendant, 
or employee ; one immediately subject to the 
will of another: as, the officers and men of an 
army; a gentleman's man (a valet or body-ser- 
vant) ; I am no man's man. 
Like master, like man. Old proverb. 
Ill come and call you home to dinner, and my man shall 
attend you. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 264. 
Yet any one who talks to German officers on the subject 
of their men learns from them that they do not by any 
means consider the average German as the best material 
of which to make a soldier. 
Fortnightly Ret., N. S., XLIII. 23. 
9. A husband : as, my man is not at home (said 
by a wife). [Now only provincial or vulgar, 
except in the phrase man and wife."] 
Forasmuch as M. and N. have consented together in 
holy wedlock, ... I pronounce that they are Man and 
Wife. 
Book of Common Prayer, Solemnization of Matrimony. 
In the next place, every wife ought to answer for her 
man. Addison, The Ladies' Association. 
10. One subject to a mistress ; a lover or suitor. 
[Now vulgar.] 
I wol nat ben untrewe for no wight, 
But as hire man I wol ay lyve and sterve, 
And nevere noon other creature serve. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 447. 
11. A word of familiar address, often implying 
some degree of disparagement or impatience. 
We speak no treason, man. Shak., Rich. III., i. 1. 90. 
" You will think me I don't know what you will think 
me ." " Get it out, man. I can't tell till I know." 
Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xlv. 
12. A piece with which a game, as chess or 
checkers, is played. 13. JVa*.,in compounds, 
a ship or other vessel: as, wo-of-war; mer- 
chantmon, India/, etc.-Aman of death*. See 
death. Banbury mant, a Puritan ; a sour or severe man. 
Banbury was at one time a center of Puritanism. [ Eng. ] 
3602 
Best man, a friend who acts as a ceremonial attendant to 
a bridegroom at a wedding ; a groomsman : formerly ap- 
plied also to one who served a bride in that capacity. 
The swans they bound the bride's best man, 
Below a green aik tree. 
The Earl of Mar's Daughter (Child's Ballads, I. 177). 
Bible man. See Lollard^, 2. Dead man. (a) A super- 
numerary. 
At the Dog Tavern, Captain Philip Holland, with whom 
I advised how to make some advantage of my Lord's going 
to sea, told me to have five or six servants entered on 
board as dead men, and I to give them what wages I 
pleased, and so their pay to be mine. Pepys, Diary, I. 34. 
(b) pi. See dead. Dead man's part. Same as dead's- 
port. Happy man be his dolet. See dofei. Iron 
man. (a) In glass-making, an apparatus sometimes used 
to facilitate the blowing of large cylinders for sheet-glass. 
It consists of a rail projecting from the front of the blow- 
ing-furnace and carrying a pair of wheels upon which the 
cylinder and the blowing-iron or blowpipe of the operator 
are supported during the process of blowing. By means 
of the wheels, the cylinder can easily be moved away from 
or toward the furnace. (b) In some parts of England, a 
coal-cutting machine. Man about town, a man of the 
leisure clase who frequent clubs, theaters, hotels, and oth- 
er places of public or social resort ; a fashionable idler. 
The fame of his fashion as a man about town was estab- 
lished throughout the county. Thackeray, Pendennis, ii. 
I had known him as an idler and a man about town, but 
he was now transformed into an energetic and capable 
member of the government. The Century, XXXVII. 212. 
Man alive ! a familiar ejaculation expressive of surprise 
or remonstrance. Man Friday, a servile or devoted fol- 
lower ; a factotum : from the man found by Robinson 
Crusoe on his deserted island, whom he always calls "my 
man Friday." Man in the iron mask. See most". 
Man in the moon, a fancied semblance of a man walk- 
ing with a dog, and with a bush near him (also, some- 
times, of a human face), seeu in the disk of the full moon. 
The lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; 
this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush ; and this dog, my dog. 
Shak., M. N. D., v. 1. 262. 
Man In the oak, a sprite or goblin. 
The man in the oke, the hell-waine, the fler-drake, the 
puckle, Tom Thombe, hobgoblins, Tom Tumbler, bone- 
less, and such other bugs, that we were afraid of our own 
shadowes. Jt. Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft. (Davies.) 
The haunt of ... witches [and] the man in the oak. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 5. 
Man Of armst. (a) A soldier, (b) A man-at-arms. 
In the ninth Year of K. Richard's Reign, the French 
King sent the Admiral of France into Scotland, with a 
thousand Men of Arms, besides Cross-bows and others, to 
aid the Scots against the English. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 141. 
Man of blood. See blood. Man of business, a business 
manager ; au agent ; an attorney. 
Ill employ my ain man of business, Nlchil Novlt, . . . 
to agent Erne's plea. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xiii. 
Man Of nls hands. See of his hands, under hand. 
Man of letters, a literary man ; one devoted to litera- 
ture; a scholar and writer. Man of motley. See mot- 
ley. Man of sin. (a) A very wicked man ; a reprobate. 
(b) Antichrist. Man of Straw, (a) An easily refuted 
imaginary interlocutor or opponent in an argument ; a 
simulated character weakly representing the adverse side 
in a discussion. (&) An imaginary or an irresponsible per- 
son put forward as substitute or surety for another, or for 
any fraudulent purpose. Man Of the world, a man in- 
structed and experienced in the ways of the world in re- 
spect of character, manners, dealings, deportment, dress, 
etc., and trained to take all these things as he finds them 
without prejudice or surprise. 
Men who proudly looked up to him [Burr] as more than 
their political chief as the preeminent gentleman, and 
model man of the world, of that age. 
Parian, Life of Aaron Burr, I. 340. 
Man of war. (a) A warrior ; a soldier. 
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and 
mocked him. Luke xxiii. 11. 
Doth the man of war [Falstaff] stay all night, sir? 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 1. 81. 
(b) See man-of-war. Marrying man. See marrying. 
Medicineman. See medicineman. Natural man. (a) 
Man in a state of nature, mentally and spiritually ; man 
acting or thinking according to the light of unsophisti- 
cated nature. 
Hence arises a contrast between the inner self, which 
the natural man locates in his breast or <f>pir, the chief 
seat of these emotional disturbances, and the whole visi- 
ble and tangible body besides, 
J. Ward, Encyc. Brit, XX. 84. 
(b) In Scrip., man unregenerate or unrenewed; the old 
man (see below). New man, in Scrip,, the regenerate 
nature obtained through union with Christ : opposed to 
-''/ man. 
And that ye put on the neiv man, which after God is 
created in righteousness and true holiness. Eph. iv. 24. 
Nine men's morris. See morris. Ninth part of a man. 
See ninth. Odd man, a man-servant who is occasionally 
employed, or who does odd jobs, in domestic or business 
establishments in England. 
If a driver be ill, ... the odd man is called upon to do 
the work. 
Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, III. 346. 
Old man (usually with the definite article), (a) In Scrip., 
unregenerate humanity ; also, the fallen human nature 
inherited from Adam and operative in the regenerate, 
though not in the same manner or degree as in the un- 
regenerate. 
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the 
old man with his deeds. Col. iii. 9. 
manacle 
(6) The father of a family; the "governor." [Slang or 
vulgar.] (c) The captain or commanding officer, as of 
troups, a vessel, etc. ; the proprietor or employer : so called 
by his men. [Colloq.] (<J) Theat., an actor who is usu- 
ally cast for the parts of old men. (e) In certain out- 
door games, the leader ; "it." (U. s.] Old man of the 
mountain. See assassin, l. Old man of the sea, the 
old man wholeaped on the back of Sindbad the sailor, cling- 
ing to him and refusing to dismount ; hence, figuratively, 
any intolerable burden or bore which one cannot get rid of. 
But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. 
He is the bore of the age, the old man of the sea whom we 
Sinbads cannot shake off. Trollope. 
Paul's mant. See the quotation. 
A Paul's man, i. e. a frequenter of the middle aisle of 
St. Paul's cathedral, the common resort of cast captains, 
sharpers, gulls, and gossipers of every description. 
Sifford, .Note to B. Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, 
[Prol. 
Physical-force men. See Chartist. Reading man, one 
devoted to books ; especially, a student in college who ap- 
?lies himself to close study. Red man. Same as red 
ndian (which see, under Indian). Second man. the 
mate of a fishing-vessel, corresponding to first mate in 
the merchant service. [New Eng.] The fall of man. 
3ee/ai. The sick man, Turkey; the Ottoman Empire : 
so called in allusion to its chronic state of trouble and de- 
cline. The expression was first used in 1853 by the Emperor 
Nicholas of Russia in a conversation with Sir Hamilton 
Seymour, British ambassador. To a man, all together ; 
every one ; unanimously. 
I shall now mention a particular wherein your whole 
body will be certainly against me, and the laity, almost to 
a man, on my side. Surffl, Letter to Young Clergyman. 
To be one's own man, to be master of one's own time 
and actions. 
You are at liberty ; be your own man again. 
Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, v. 2. 
To line men. See line's. [Man is used in a few com- 
pounds merely to denote the sex, as in man-child, man- 
servant. It is also used in many compounds in the gen- 
eral sense : as, man-eater, man-hater, etc.] 
man (man), v. t. ; pret. and pp. manned, ppr. 
manning. [< ME. mannen, < AS. mannian, ge- 
mannian = D. MLG. G. mannen = Icel. manna 
= Sw. manna = Dan. mande, supply with men ; 
from the noun.] 1. To supply with men ; fur- 
nish with a sufficient force or complement of 
men, as for service, defense, or the like. 
But she has builded a bonnie ship, 
Weel mann'd wi' seamen o' hie degree. 
Lord Beichan and Susie Pye (Child's Ballads, IV. 267). 
The gates [of St. John's College] were shut, and partly 
man-ned, partly boy-ed, against him [Dr. Whitaker]. 
Fuller, Hist. Camb. Univ., vi. 16. 
See how the surly Warwick mans the wall ! 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., v. 1. 17. 
Since the termination of the American war, there had 
been nothing to call for any unusual energy in manning 
the navy. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, i. 
2. To brace up in a manful way; make manly 
or courageous : used reflexively. 
Good your grace, 
Retire, and man yourself; let us alone ; 
We are no children this way. 
Fletcher, Valentinian, ii. 4. 
He manned himself with dauntless air. 
Scott, L. of the L., v. 10. 
So he manned himself, and spoke quietly and firmly. 
J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 286. 
3t. To wait on ; attend ; escort. 
Will you not manne vs, Fidus, beeing so proper a man? 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 291. 
Such manning them [the ladies] home when the sports 
are ended. 
Gossan, quoted in Doran's Annals of the Stage, I. 21. 
By your leave, bright stars, this gentleman and I are 
come to man you to court. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 1. 
4f. To accustom to the presence or company of 
man ; tame, as a hawk or other bird. 
Those silver doves 
That wanton Venus mann'th upon her fist. 
Greene, Orlando Furioso. 
Another way I have to man my haggard, 
To make her come and know her keeper's call. 
Shak., T. of the S., iv. 1. 196. 
To man it out, to brave it out ; play a manly part ; bear 
one's self stoutly and boldly. 
Well, I must man it out; what would the Queen? 
Dryden, All for Love, ii. 
To man the capstan. See capstan. To man the yards. 
See yard. 
manablet (man'a-bl), a. [< man + -able.'} Of 
proper age to have a husband ; marriageable. 
[Rare.] 
That's woman's ripe age ; as full as thou art at one and 
twenty ; she's manable, is she not? 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, ii. 1. 
manacet, . and i>. An obsolete form of menace. 
manacle (man'a-kl), n, [Early mod. E. mnn- 
icle (the orig. correct form), < ME. manakyll, 
manaale, ntnnnkdlt', nniiii/cle, < OP. manicle, F. 
M/HiWe(=Sp. matiija), <ML. manicula, a hand- 
cuff (cf. L. manicula, the handle of a plow), dim. 
of L. maiiinc, pi., a handcuff, also the long 
sleeve of a tunic (> F. manique, hand-leather): 
