man-midwife 
man-midwife (man'mid"wif), n. A man who 
practises obstetrics ; an accoucheur. 
man-milliner (man'mil"i-ner), n. A milliner 
of the male sex; especially, one who under- 
takes the manufacture of women's bonnets, 
etc., employing others to do the work. 
An empty-pated fellow, and as conceited as a man-mil- 
liner. T. Hook, All in the Wrong, ii. 
manna (man'a), . [< ME. manna, manne,<. AS. 
manna, monna = D. G. Dan. Sw. Goth, manna 
= P. maune = Sp. mand = Pg. mand, manna 
= It. manna, < L. manna, f. (Pliny), LL. (Vul- 
fate) manna, and man, neut. or indeclinable, 
Gr. fiavva, a concrete vegetable exudation, a 
grain, in the Old Testament manna, < Heb. 
man (= Ar. mann), manna, described, as found 
by the Israelites, as "a small round thing, as 
small as the hoar frost on the ground. And 
when the children of Israel saw it, they said 
one to another, It is manna [in the Vulgate : 
"Manhuf quod significat: Quid est hoc?"]: 
for they wist not what it was" (Ex. xvi. 14, 
15), implying that the name thus arose from 
the question, Heb. man hu, 'what is this?'; but 
this is doubtless a popular etymology. The 
name is otherwise referred to Heb. man, a 
gift," Ar. mann, favor.] 1. The food by which 
the children of Israel were sustained in the 
wilderness (Ex. xvi. 14-36; Num. xi. 6, 7). 
The circumstances attending the gift of manna show that 
it was believed to be miraculous. Modern commentators 
differ in opinion as to its probable nature : by some it is 
identified with an exudation of the tamarisk-tree, and by 
others with a lichen which, torn from its home and car- 
ried vast distances by the wind, still falls and is gathered 
for food in the Sinaitic peninsula (see manna-lichen) ; and 
by others it is regarded as a special and miraculous crea- 
tion. 
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: 
and it was like coriander seed, white ; and the taste of it 
was like wafers made with honey. Ex. xvi. 31. 
Each morning, on the ground 
Not common deaw, but Manna, did abound. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. 
Hence 2. Delicious food for either the body 
or the mind; delectable material for nourish- 
ment or entertainment. 
His tongue 
Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear 
The better reason, to perplex and dash 
Maturest counsels. Milton, P. L., ii. 113. 
Mine was an angel's portion then, 
And, while I fed with eager haste, 
The crust was manna to my taste. 
J. Montgomery, A Poor Wayfaring Man of Qrief. 
3. Divine or spiritual food. 
Thou Manna, which from Heav'n we eat, 
To every Taste a several Meat ! 
Cowley, The Mistress, For Hope. 
4. In phar., a sweet concrete juice obtained by 
incisions made in the stem of fYaxinus Ornus, a 
native of Sicily, Calabria, and other parts of the 
south of Europe, and from other species of ash. 
It is either naturally concreted or exsiccated and puri- 
fied by art. At the present day the manna of commerce 
is collected exclusively in Sicily, where the manna-ash is 
cultivated for the purpose in regular plantations. The 
best manna is in oblong pieces or flakes of a whitish or 
pale-yellow color, light, friable, and somewhat trans- 
parent. It has a slight peculiar odor, and a sweetish 
taste mixed with a slight degree of bitterness, and is em- 
ployed as a gentle laxative for children or persons of weak 
habit. It is, however, generally used as an adjunct to 
other more active medicines. It consists principally of a 
crystallizable sweet substance named mannite, and certain 
other substances in smaller quantity. Sweetish secretions 
exuded by some other plants growing in warm and dry 
climates, as the Eucalyptus viminalis, the manna-gumtree 
of Australia, and the Tamarix Gallica, var. mannifera, of 
Arabia and Syria, are also considered to be kinds of manna. 
Small quantities of manna, known as Briacon manna, are 
obtained from the common larch, Larix Europeea. Jews' 
or Hebrew manna, manna of Sinai, (a) An exudation 
from the leguminous bush called camels-thorn, Alhagi 
cainelorum (including A. Maurorum). See Alhagi and 
camel's-thorn. (i>) The secretion of the tamarisk, Tamarix 
Oallica, var. mannifera,. It is a honey-like liquid which 
exudes from punctures made by an insect, hardens on the 
stems, and drops to the ground. It is collected by the 
Arabs as a delicacy. Madagascar manna. Same as 
dulcitol. Persian manna. Same as Jews' manna (a). 
Poland or Polish manna. Same as manna-seeds. 
manna-ash (man'a-ash), n. A tree, Fraxinus 
Ormts. See ash 1 and manna, 4. 
manna-croup (man'a-krop), n. See semolina. 
mannaedt (man'ad), a. [< manna + -ed?.] 
Honeyed. Richardson. 
And each, for some base interest of his own 
With Flattery's manna'd lips assail the throne. 
Mickle, tr. of Camoens's Lusiad, ix. 
manna-grass (man'a-gras), . The sweet- 
seeded grass Glyceri'a fluitans. The name is 
sometimes extended to the genus. See Glyce- 
rla. 
manna-gumtree (man'a-gum // tre), n. An Aus- 
tralian tree, Eucalyptus viminalis, which yields 
a crumb-like melitose manna. 
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manna-lichen (man'a-ll"ken;, n. One of sev- 
eral species of lichens, particularly Lecanora 
esculenta and L. affinis. See Lecanora. 
manna-seeds (man'a-sedz), n. pi. The seeds 
of the manna-grass. See Glyceria. 
manner 1 (man'er), n. [Early mod. E. maner; < 
ME. maner, manere = OFriea. maniere, manere = 
MD. maniere, D. maiiier = MHG. maniere, G. ma- 
nier = Sw. man6r = Dan. maneer, < OF. manere, 
maniere, meniere, F. maniere = Pr. maneira = 
Sp. manera = Pg. maneira = It. maniera (ML. 
reflex maneria, manneria, maneries), manner, 
habit; prop. fern, of the adj., OF. manier = Pr. 
manier = Sp. manero, < ML. "manarius for ma- 
nuarius, of or belonging to the hand (as a noun, 
manuarius, a manual laborer) (hence with ref. 
to the way of handling or doing a thing), < L. 
manus (manu-), hand : see main?. Cf. manual.] 
1. The way in which an action is performed; 
method of doing anything ; mode of proceeding 
in any case or situation; mode ; way; method. 
Thus Haukyn the actyf man hadde ysoiled his cote, 
Til Conscience acouped hym there-of in a curteise manere. 
Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 459. 
Vse it in maner as I seide afore. 
Book of Quinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 16. 
For the husbanding of these Mountains, their manner 
was to gather up the Stones, and place them in several 
lines along the sides of the Hills, in form of a Wall 
Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 85. 
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which 
art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Mat. VL 9. 
I do not much dislike the matter, but 
The manner of his speech. 
Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. 114. 
2. Habitual practice; customary mode of act- 
ing or proceeding with respect to anything; 
characteristic way or style, as in art or lit- 
erature ; distinctive method ; habit ; style : as, 
one's manner of life ; the manner of Titian, or 
of Dickens. 
In Cipre is the manere of Lordis and alle othere Men, 
alle to eten on the Erthe. Mandeville, Travels, p. 29. 
A good maner than had Robyn, 
In londe where that he were, 
Every daye or he woulde dyne 
Thre messes wolde he here. 
Lytett Geste of Rokyn Hade (Child's Ballads, V. 46). 
Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them. 
Acts xvii. 2. 
He who can vary his manner to suit the variation is the 
great dramatist; but he who excels in one manner only 
will, when that manner happens to be appropriate, appear 
to be a great dramatist. Macaiilay, Dryden. 
The manner of the painters of the fifteenth century was 
often shackled and cramped by difficulties which have 
long since been broken away, and by ignorance which has 
long since yielded to knowledge. 
C. E. Norton, Travel and Study in Italy, p. 66. 
3. Personal bearing or behavior; customary 
conduct ; characteristic way of acting ; wonted 
deportment or demeanor: most commonly in 
the plural : as, his manner was abrupt ; good or 
bad manners ; reformation of manners in a com- 
munity. 
All his maners so wele it did hyr piece, 
That she constreyned was in certeynte 
To loue hym best, it wold non other be. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 689. 
Of corrupted maners spryng peruerted iudgementes. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 79. 
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 
1 Cor. xv. 33. 
Air and manner are more expressive than words. 
Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe. 
Specifically 4. pi. Good behavior; polite de- 
portment; habitual practice of civility; com- 
mendable habits of conduct: as, have you no 
manners f 
Fit for the mountains, and barbarous caves, 
Where manners ne'er were preach'd. 
Shak., T. N., iv. 1. 53. 
Good manners is the art of making those people easy 
with whom we converse. Swift. 
By manners I do not mean morals, but behaviour and 
good breeding, as they shew themselves in the town and 
in the country. Addison, Country Manners. 
5. The way in which anything is made or con- 
stituted ; mode of being or formation ; fashion ; 
character; sort; kind: often used with all in a 
plural sense, equivalent to sorts or kinds : as, all 
manner of baked meats. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
There duellen Sarazines, and another maner of folk, that 
men clcpen Cordynes. Mandeville, Travels, p. 259. 
Alle maner of men, the mene and the riche, 
Worchyng and wandryng as the worlde asketh. 
Piers Plowman (B), Pro!., 1. 19. 
Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, 
and wrote it in a book. 1 Sam. x. 25. 
What manner of man are you? 
Shale., Hen. VIII., v. 1. 117. 
[The word in this sense is frequently used in old English 
without of following, in a quasi -adjective use, like hind of In 
mannerism 
modern English : as, manner folk, kind of people ; manner 
crime, kind of crime, etc. 
Zif ony Man do thereinne ony maner Metalle, it turnethe 
anon to Glasse. Mandemlle, Travels, p. 32. 
Ther was to her no maner lettre sent 
That touched love, from eny maner wyght, 
That she ne shewed hit him er hit was brent. 
Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, L 113. 
Wherbye the kinges peas may in eny maner wise be 
broken or hurt. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 427. 
Right hard it was for wight which did it heare 
To read what manner musicke that mote bee. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 70.] 
By no manner of means. See BUM^S. Dotted man- 
ner. See dotl. In a manner, in a certain degree, mea- 
sure, or sense ; to a certain extent. 
The bread is in a manner common. 1 Sam. xxi. 5. 
'Tis not a time to pity passionate griefs, 
When a whole kingdom in a manner lies 
Upon its death-bed bleeding. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, i. 1. 
Shark's manners, greediness ; rapacity ; extreme sel- 
fishness. [Naut. slang.] To make one's manners, to 
salute a person on meeting, usually by a bow or courtesy : 
said of children. [Prov. Eng., and formerly New Eng.] 
I humbly make my manners, missus. 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, ii. 
To the manner born, accustomed to some practice or 
mode from birth; having lifelong familiarity with the 
thing mentioned. 
But to my mind though I am native here. 
And to the manner born it is a custom 
More honour'd in the breach than the observance. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. 16. 
[Manner here is sometimes understood as manor (which 
was formerly also spelled manner), and is often changed to 
manor in the quotation to make the phrase applicable to 
locality. ] = Syn. 1. Manner, Mode, Method, Way. Manner is 
the least precise of these words, standing for sort or kind, 
custom, mode, method, or the like. Mode may mean a 
fashion, or a form or sort, as a mode of existence, or a 
single act or an established way, as a mode of disposing 
of refuse. Method implies a succession of acts tending 
to an end, as a method of slaughtering an ox or of solving a 
problem. Way is a very general word, in large popular 
use for each of the others, as a man's way of building 
a dam (method), of holding a pen (mode), of staring at 
strangers (manner). 2. Habit, Usage, etc. See custom, 
3. Manners, Morals, etc. See morality. 
manner 2 t, An obsolete form of manor. 
manner 3 t (man'er), n. Another form ofmainor. 
mannerablet (man'er-a-bl), a. [< ME. numer- 
able; < manner' 1 - + -able."] Well-trained ; versed 
in good manners. 
In a manerable mershalle the connynge is moost com- 
mendable 
To haue a fore sight to straungers, to sett them at the 
table. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 191. 
mannerchor (men'er-kor), n. [G., < manner, 
pi. of mann, man, + chor, chorus: see man and 
chorus.] A German singing-society or chorus 
composed exclusively of men. 
mannered (man'erd), . [< ME. manered; < 
manner 1 + -ed 2 .] 1. Having or possessed of 
manners, carriage, or demeanor ; in compounds, 
having manners of a certain kind, as in ill-man- 
nered, well-mannered. 
And Mede ys manered after hym. 
Piers Plowman (C\ iii. 27. 
Beseeching you 
To give her princely training, that she may be 
Manner'd as she is born. Shak., Pericles, iii. 3. 17. 
2. Marked by a constantly repeated manner 
or method, especially in art or literature ; char- 
acterized by mannerism; artificial; unnatural; 
affected. 
A peculiar reaction from the mannered style of the mas- 
ters of the preceding century manifested itself in Holland. 
Amer. Cyc., XII. 800. 
A mannered piece, showing silvery evening twilight on 
a pool and . . . nymphs dancing in the shadow. 
Athenaeum, April 1, 1882. 
The defective proportions of the forms, and the man- 
nered attitude of the principal figure. 
C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 2a 
mannerism (man'er-izm), . [< manner* + 
-ism."\ 1. Monotonous, formal, or pedantic 
adherence to the same manner ; uniformity of 
manner, especially a tasteless uniformity, with- 
out freedom or variety ; excessive adherence to 
a characteristic mode or manner of action or 
treatment. 
Mannerism is pardonable, and is sometimes even agree- 
able, when the manner, though vicious, is natural. 
Macavlay, Boswell's Johnson. 
The secondary intellect . . . seeks for excitement in ex- 
pression, and stimulates itself into mannerism, which is 
the wilful obtrusion of self, as style is its unconscious ab- 
negation. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 181. 
2. A peculiarity of manner in deportment, 
speech, or execution ; an exceptionally charac- 
teristic mode or method ; an idiosyncrasy. 
The seated passengers . . . remained in happy igno- 
rance that their mannerisms and facial peculiarities were 
sharply defined to the public eye. 
T. Hardy, The Woodlanders, i. 
