manometric 
the gas-jet. Of the figures here given, the first is that 
caused by a single note, and the second corresponds to the 
simultaneous production of a note and its octave. 
manonietrical (nian-o-met'ri-kal), a. [< mano- 
mcti-ic + -al.] Same as manometric. 
ma non troppo. See ma 3 . 
manor (man'or), n. [Early mod. E. also man- 
nere, remain, dwell, = Gr. pevuv, stay, remain: 
see remain, remnant, etc., and cf. manse 2 and 
mansion, from the same source as manor.] If. 
A dwelling; habitation. 
Trouthe hymself, over al and al, 
Had chose his maner principal 
In hir ; that was his restyng place. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 1004. 
2. In England, generally, a landed estate, es- 
pecially one the tenure of which vests the pro- 
prietor with some particular rights of lordship ; 
specifically, in old law, a lordship or barony 
held by a lord and subject to the jurisdiction 
of a court-baron held by him ; in more ancient 
usage, an estate of a lord or thane with a village 
community, generally in serfdom, upon it. See 
villeinage and yard-land. 
In the iii. yer of his reign in Septembre was bore to the 
kyng a soiie cleped Richard, att Oxenford in his manaire, 
wher is now the white freres. 
Rob. of Gloucester, p. 484, note. 
These manors [those with which England was covered 
about the time of the Domesday Survey] were in fact in 
their simplest form estates of manorial lords, each with its 
village community in villenage upon it. The land of the 
lord's demesne the home farm belonging to the manor- 
housewas cultivated chiefly by the services of the villata, 
i. e. of the village community or tenants in villenage. The 
land of this village community, i. e. the land in villenage, 
lay round the village in open fields. In the villages were 
the messuages, or homesteads of the tenants in villenage, 
and their holdings were composed of bundles of scattered 
strips in the open fields, with rights of pasture over the 
latter for their cattle after the crops were gathered, as 
well as on the green commons of the manor or township. 
Seebohm, Eng. Vil. Community, p. 76. 
On close inspection, all feudal society is seen to be a re- 
production of a single typical form. This unit consists of 
a group of men settled on a definite space of land, and 
forming what we Englishmen call a Manor, and what in 
France was called a Fief. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 302. 
The name manor is of Norman origin, but the estate to 
which it was given existed, in its essential character, 
long before the Conquest ; it received a new name as the 
shire also did, but neither the one nor the other was cre- 
ated by this change. Stubbs, Const. Hist., 98. 
3f. The jurisdiction of a court-baron or court 
of the lord of a manor. 4. In some of the 
United States formed by English colonies, a 
tract of land occupied or once occupied by ten- 
ants paying a fee-farm rent to the proprietor, 
sometimes in kind, and sometimes in stipulated 
services. Burrill. In colonial times these resembled 
the old English manors, their possession being in most 
cases accompanied by jurisdiction. 
man-orchis (man'dr'kis), n. [So called from 
a fancied resemblance between its lip and the 
body of a man hanging by the head.] A green- 
ish-flowered orchid,^ceras anthropophora, natu- 
ral order Orcliideai, which grows in meadows 
and pastures in the eastern part of England. 
The genus is distinguished from Orchis by the absence of 
a spur, but contains no species of importance. Also called 
greenman and greenman orchis. 
manor-house (man'or-hous), . The house or 
mansion belonging to a manor. 
manorial (ma-no'ri-al), a. [< manor + -ial.] 
Of or pertaining to a manor or to manors ; con- 
stituting a manor : as, manorial law; & manorial 
estate. 
This tenure [the right of common] is also usually em- 
barrassed by the interference of manorial claims. 
Paley, Moral Philos., vi. 11. 
In the garden by the turrets 
Of the old manorial hall. 
Tennyson, Maud, xxvi. 
The colony of Maryland was settled and established on 
the manorial principle. The Dial, IV., No. 48. 
Manorial court. Same as court-baron. 
manor-seat (man'or-set), n. Same as manor- 
house. 
manoryt (man'or-i), n. [Also mannery; an ex- 
tension of manor."] Same as manor. 
manoscope (man'o-skop), . [< Gr. [iav6f, rare, 
not dense, + mtoTrelv, view.] A manometer. 
[Rare.] 
manoscopy (ma-nos'ko-pi), n. [< Gr. /iav6f , rare, 
+ oKOTrelv, view. ] That branch of physics which 
concerns itself with the determination of the 
density of vapors and gases. 
Manouria, Manouriana. See Manuria, Ma- 
nuriana. 
manovery (ma-no 'ver-i), n. ; pi. manoveries 
(-iz). [A var. of manoeuver (ME. mainovre) : 
3616 
see manoeuver.'] In Eng. law, a device or a ma- 
neuvering to catch game illegally. 
man-pleaser (man'ple // zer), n. One who pleases 
men, or who strives to gain their favor. 
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to 
the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but in sin- 
gleness of heart, fearing God. CoL iii. 22. 
man-power (man'pou"er), . 1. The work that 
can be done by one man in a day. 2. A motor 
utilizing the force of a man in driving ma- 
chinery. 
manciuellert (man'kweFer), n. [< ME. man- 
quellerc, monquellere, < AS. mancwellere, a homi- 
cide, < maun, man, + cwellere, killer : see queller.~] 
Amankiller; amanslayer; an executioner. 
But sente a manqueller and commaundide that Jones 
[John Baptist's] heed were brought in a disch. 
Wyclif, Mark vi. 27. 
Wilt thou kill God's officers and the king's ? Ah, thou 
honey-seed [homicide] rogue ! thou art a honey-seed, a 
man queller, and a woman-queller. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., li. 1. 68. 
manredt (man'red), n. [< ME. manrede, < AS. 
manraidcn, mannrceden, homage; < maim, vassal, 
man, man, + rceden, condition : see man and -red. 
Cf. homage, < L. homo, man. Hence, by corrup- 
tion, manrent."] Personal service or attendance ; 
homage. It was the token of a species of bondage 
whereby free persons became bondmen or followers of 
those who weie their patrons or defenders. 
Misdco no messengere for menske of thi selvyne, 
Sen we are in thy manrede, and mercy the besekes. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), L 127. 
manrentt (man'rent), n. [A corruption of man- 
red, simulating rent 2 ."] Same as manred. 
He had bound them [the border chiefs] to his interests 
by those feudal covenants named "bands of manrent," 
. . . compelling the parties to defend each other against 
the effects of their mutual transgressions. 
F. Tytler, Hist, Scotland (ed. 1846), IV. 206. 
manroot (man'rot), . A morning-glory, Ipo- 
maia leptophylla, found on the dry plains of 
Colorado and in adjacent regions. It is a plant 
2 or 3 feet high, with an immense root having some re- 
semblance in shape and size to a man. 
man-rope (man'rop), n. Naut., one of the two 
ropes suspended from stanchions one on each 
side of a gangway 
or ladder, used in 
ascending and de- 
scending a ship's 
side, hatchways, etc. 
Man-rope knot. See 
knotl. 
Mansard roof. See 
roof. 
manse 1 t, * [ME. 
niansien, by aphere- 
sis from amansien, amonsien, < AS. dmdnsumian 
(contr. pp. dmdnsod), excommunicate, < a-, out, 
+ "mdnsum, familiar, intimate, appar. < "man, 
in gemarne, common, + -sum: see mean 2 and 
-some."} To excommunicate ; curse. 
"By Marie," quod a mamed preste of the marche of Yr- 
londe, 
"I counte namore Conscience bi so I cacche syluer, 
Than I do to drynke a draujte of good ale ! " 
Piers Plowman (B), xx. 220. 
manse 2 (mans), n. [< ME. "manse, < OF. manse, 
< ML. mansa, mansum, a dwelling, < L. ma- 
nere, pp. mansus, remain, dwell: see remain, 
and cf. mansion,] Originally, the dwelling of 
a landholder with the land attached; after- 
ward, especially, any ecclesiastical residence, 
whether parochial or collegiate ; now, specifi- 
cally, the dwelling-house of a minister of the 
Established Church of Scotland, and hence 
sometime? the parsonage of any church of the 
Presbyterian or Congregational order. 
To grip for the lucre of foul earthly preferment, sic as 
gear and manse, money and victual. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xliii. 
Across the meadows, by the gray old manse, 
The historic river flowed. Longfellow, Hawthorne. 
Capital manset, a principal residence ; a manor-house 
or lord's court. 
This lady died at her capital manse at Fencot near Bi- 
cester in 1111. T. Warton, Hist. Kiddington, p. 30. 
man-servant (man'ser"vant), n. A man who 
is a servant. 
manshipt (man'ship), n. [ME. manship, man- 
chip, < AS. manscipe, humanity, < mann, man, 
+ -scipe, E. -ship.] Manhood; courage. 
I beseche & preie, 
Fo[r] loue that ge owe to the lord that let sou be fourmed, 
Meyntenes git goure inanchip manli a while. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2676. 
manshiplyt, adv. [NiE.manschipeliche; < man- 
ship + -fy2.] Manfully. 
His lord he served treweliche, 
In al thing manschipeliche. 
Guy of Warwick, p, 1. (BaUiwell.) 
Man-rope Knot. 
manslaughter 
mansion (man'shon), . [< ME. mansion (in 
astrology)i < OF.' mansion = Sp. mansion = 
Pg. mansao = It. mansione, < L. mansio(n-), a 
staying, remaining, abiding, also an abode, 
dwelling, < matters, pp. mansus, stay, remain, 
dwell: see remain. Cf. manor, manse 2 , mease 1 , 
measondue."] If. A tarrying-place ; a station. 
2. A dwelling; any place of fixed residence 
or repose. [Archaic or poetical.] 
In my Father's house are many mansions. John xiv. 2. 
To unfold 
What worlds or what vast regions hold 
The immortal mind, that hath forsook 
Her mansion in this fleshly nook. 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 92. 
3. A dwelling-house of the better class ; a large 
or stately residence; especially, the house of 
the lord of a manor; a manor-house. 
Here the Warrior dwelt ; 
And, in that mansion, children of his own, 
Or kindred, gathered round him. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, vii. 
4. In Oriental and medieval astronomy, one of 
twenty-eight parts into which the zodiac is 
divided; a lunar mansion (which see, under 
lunar). 
Which book spak muchel of the operacipuns 
Touchynge the eighte and twenty marwouns 
That longen to the nioone. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 402. 
5. In astral., the sign in which the sun or any 
planet has its special residence; a house. 
Phehus the sonne f ul joly was and cleer ; 
For he was neigh his exaltacion 
In Martes face, and in his mansion 
ID Aries, the colerik hole signe. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 42. 
mansiont (man'shon), v. i. [< mansion, n."] To 
tarry; dwell; reside. [Rare.] 
Visible as the clouds of heaven, and other meteors ; as 
also the rest of the creatures mansioning therein. 
J. Kede, Paraphrase of St. Peter (1642X p. 16. 
mansionary (man'shon-a-ri), a. [= F. mansion- 
naire = Sp. It. mansiondrio, < LL. mansionari- 
us, of or belonging to a dwelling, < L. mansio(n-), 
a dwelling: see munition.'] Resident; residen- 
tiary : as, mansionary canons. Wright. 
mansion-house (man'shon-hous), n. The house 
in which one resides ; an inhabited house, espe- 
cially one of considerable importance or gran- 
deur ; a manor-house. 
This party purposing in this place to make a dwelling, 
or, as the old word is, his mansion-house, or his manor- 
house, did devUe how he might make his land a complete 
habitation to supply him with all maner of necessaries. 
Bacon, Use of the Law. 
[A burglary] must be, according to Sir Edward Coke's 
definition, in a mansion-house, and therefore, to account 
for the reason why breaking open a church is burglary, he 
quaintly observes that it is domus mansionalis Dei. 
Blackstone, Com., IV. xvi. 
The Mansion-house, the official residence of the Lord 
Mayor of London. 
mansionry (man'shqn-ri), n. ; pi. mansionrtes 
(-riz). [< mansion -i- -ry.] Abode in a place; 
residence. [Rare.] 
The temple-haunting martlet does approve, 
By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath 
Smells wooingly here. Shale., Macbeth, i. 6. 5. 
manslaughtt, . [ME. manslagt, manslagt, mon- 
slagt, < AS. mansliht, mansleht, manslceht, man- 
slyht, monsliht, etc. (= OS. manslahta = OFries. 
manslachta, monslachta = MLG. manslacht = 
OHG-. manslahta, manslalit, HHGr. manslaht = 
Dan. mandsl&t : cf . also AS. manslege = T>. man- 
slag), the slaying of a man,< maun, man, + sliht, 
slea lit, slaying: see slaught.] Manslaughter. 
The syn of sodomi to heven 
Hit crysen on God Almygt ; 
And monslajt with a rewful steven 
Hit askys vengans day and nyjt. 
Audelay, Poems, p. 2. (Hattiicell.) 
manslaughter (man'sla/ter), n. [< ME. man- 
slagter, manslauter; <a + slaughter. Cf.man- 
slaught."] 1. The killing of a human being by 
a human being, or of men by men ; homicide ; 
human slaughter. 
To overcome in battle, and subdue 
Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite 
Man-daughter, shall be held the highest pitch 
Of human glory. Milton, P. L., xi. 693. 
Specifically 2. In law, the unlawful killing of 
another without malice either express or im- 
plied, which may be either voluntarily, upon 
a sudden heat, or involuntarily, but in the com- 
mission of some unlawful act. Blackstone. Man- 
slaughterdiffersfrommurderinnotproceeding from malice 
prepense or deliberate, which is essential to constitute mur- 
der. It differs from excusable homicide, being done in 
consequence of some unlawful act, whereas excusable 
homicide happens in consequence of misadventure. Man- 
slaughter has been distinguished as voluntary, where the 
