manslaughter 
killing was Intentional In :i sudden boat or passion without 
previous malice ; ami iiimhnitni^i \\liririt \vuRnotinten- 
tinnal. bill tin 1 HlayiT wasai the tin.r I'ngaxud in iin unlaw- 
ful act Irss (ban a frlony. <>r doing A lawful act in an un- 
lawful manmT. This iliKtinrtiuri uf uanir is no longer used 
in prcio'chiiv. i-\i'i-pt in those jurisdictions wbere it maybe 
rfiji.ini .I by statute. 
manslayer (man'sla'cr), . [< ME. manxlm-i-; 
< man + xliiyer.] A slayer of a man or of ini-n : 
one who kills a human being. 
There shall be six cities of refuge ... for the man 
xla il:' r. Num. XXXV. 6. 
manstealer (man'ste'ler), n. One who steals 
human beings, generally for the purpose of sell- 
ing them as slaves; a kidnapper. 
The law Is . . . for manslayers, . . . for menttealen, for 
liars. 1 Tim. I. 9, 10. 
manstealing ( man 'ste* ling). . The act of 
stealing human beings to sell them into slavery. 
man-Sty (man'sti), n. A sty or dwelling unfit 
for human habitation; a filthy dwelling-place. 
[Bare. ] 
Tho landlord who, as too many do, neglects his cottages 
till they become man-itifs, to breed pauperism and dis- 
ease. Kingsley. 
mansuete (man'swet), a. [< ME. mansuete, < 
OP. ntanxuet, mansuete, F. mansuet = Pr. man- 
suet = 8p. Pg. It. mansueto, < L. mansuetus, 
tamed, tame, mild, soft, pp. of niniixiifxcrn; 
tame, become tame, lit. accustom to the hand, 
< iiuinus, the hand, + suescere, become accus- 
tomed : see custom.'] Tame; gentle; habitual- 
ly mild or forbearing; not wild or ferocious. 
[Rare.] 
She seyde ek, she was fayn with hyra to mete, 
And stood forth muwet, mylde, and manmete. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 194. 
Our hard-headed, Imrd-httting, clever, and notover-man- 
tuete friend. Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 209. 
mansuetude (man'swe-tud), n. [< ME. mansue- 
ttide = OF. mansuctume, F. mansuetude = It. 
mattsuetudine, < L. mansuetudo, tameness, mild- 
ness, < man#uetus, tame, mild: see mansuete. 
Cf. coiinni'tiiili; desuetude.] Tameness; habitual 
mildness or gentleness. [Archaic.] 
The remedie agayns ire is a vertu that men clepen man- 
suetude. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
Our Lord Himself, made up of mansuetude, 
Sealing the sum of sufferance up, received 
Opprobrium, contumely, and buffeting 
Without complaint. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 84. 
manswear, mainswear (man'-, man's war),. .; 
pret. manstcore, mainswore, pp. manstcorn, main- 
sioorn ; ppr. manswearing, mainsicearing. [< ME. 
mansieercn (in pp. mansworn, manswore), < AS. 
mdttswerian (pret. mdnsicor, pp. mansicoren), 
swear falsely, < man (= OS. men = OHG. MHG. 
mein), falseness, evil, wickedness (= Icel. mein 
= Sw. Dan. men, harm, misfortune), < man (= 
OFries. men = MLG. men, mein = OHG. MHG. 
twin), false, deceitful (= Icel. meinn, harmful), 
in mdnath (= OS. meneth = D. meineed = OHG. 
mcincid, MHG. meineit, G. meineid = Icel. mei- 
iii itl/ir = Sw. Dan. mened), orig. man dtli, a false 
oath, perjury; perhaps akin to OBulg. mean, ex- 
change, change, = Lith. mamas, exchange, and 
through thisjiotion of 'exchange' connected 
with AS. ge mcene, E. mean, common: see menu 2 .] 
To swear falsely; perjure one's self. [Obsolete 
or prov. Eng. or Scotch.] 
If I chance to stay at hame, 
My love will ca' me manmmrn. 
The Broamfield Uitt (Child's Ballads, I. 132). 
manta (inan'tji), u. [Sp. (and Pg.), a blanket : 
see mantle.] 1. A coarse unbleached cotton 
fabric which forms the staple clothing of the 
common people of Mexico. 2. In mining, a 
blanket or sack of ore ; a placer in situ. [West- 
ern U. S.] 3. The Spanish-American name 
of an enormous devil-fish or sea-devil, an eagle- 
ray of the family Ceratopteridte. Hence 4. 
[cop.] [NL.] A genus of such rays. Mtnila lii- 
nuril is a species of the warmer American wa- 
ters. It is a synonym of Ceratoptera. 
Mantchoo, . and <i. A spelling of Manelni^. 
manteau (inan'to), . [Formerly also mtnilii. 
mtintiif (iilso by corruption ntantua, q. v.) ; < F. 
man lean, a cloak: see mantle, the older form 
of the same word. The form manto, iimiitnt; 
is simply a more phonetic spelling of the F. 
(like rut'tit. fiittm . for contrail), and not from the 
Sp. or It. maiito.i 1. A cloak or mantle. 
He presents him with a white horse, a nrnnto. or blacke 
coole [cowl], a pastoral staff. 
It'/i-iitit. slat.! of the Greek Church, p. 96. 
Specifically 2. A woman's cloak or outer gar- 
ment: especially, :i mantle open in front Mini 
displaying the skirt or petticoat. 
8617 
Haat tin MI any inantnr* for ladles made after thine own 
fashion, u iiii-ij '.hull cover all their naked shoulders, and 
breasts, and necks, and adorn them all <>M > 
Kii'ilmtil'* rn% (1083), p. 80. (Hares.) 
I met ln-r Ibis Morning, In a new Manteau and i'ettl- 
coat, not a bit the worse for her Lady's wearing. 
Steele, Conscious Loven, L 1. 
But since in braided gold her foot is bound. 
And a long trailing inantfau sweeps the ground, 
Her shoe disdains the street. Gay, Trivia, I. 110. 
mantel (man'tl), . [< ME. mantel, < OF. HIIIH- 
tfl, a cloak, a shelf over a fireplace: see mini- 
tie, of which mantel is but an older spelling, re- 
tained only in the architectural sense, without 
particular reason.] If. A cloak. See mantle 
(the present spelling in this sense). 2. In 
i., all the work or facing around a fireplace, 
Mantel. 
Cloister of St. Elne. near Perpignan, France ; I3th century. 
resting against the chimney, and usually pro- 
jecting and more or less ornamental, it Includes 
the mantelpiece or chimneypiece, with the mantel-shelf, 
when this is present, and the hood of fireplaces having 
this feature. 
3. In a restricted sense, a mantel-shelf. 
mantelboard (man'tl-bord), n. The shelf of 
a mantelpiece, especially when movable and 
forming rather a part of the over-mantel than 
of the chimneypiece proper. 
mantel-Clock (man'tl -kick), n. A clock or 
timepiece intended to stand on a mantel-shelf. 
The mantte-clnctc strikes six sharp insisting blows as 
she exclaims. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 25. 
mantelet, mantlet (man'tel-et, mant'let), . 
[Formerly also mantellet ; < ME. mantelet, < OF. 
mantelet, F. mantelet (= Sp. Pg. mantelete = It. 
mantelletto, mantelktta), dim. of mantel, a cloak : 
see mantel, mantle."] 1. A short cloak or mantle, 
(a) A short cloak worn In the fourteenth and flf teenth cen- 
turies by knights. 
A mantelet upon his shuldre banginge, 
I'.n-t fnl of rubies reede, as fyr sparkllnge. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1306. 
(6) A woman's garment, narrower than the mantle, and 
approaching the form of a tippet or broad scarf, worn over 
the shoulders. 
2. Same as i-oin/oixr. See also lambrequin, 1 (a). 
3. In gun., a shield to protect men serv- 
ing guns in embrasures, casemates, or port- 
holes from the bullets of sharpshooters. 4. 
A movable roof or screen used in sieges, etc., 
to protect the besiegers in their attacks. See 
cut-castle, rinea, soifl, B. 
From these mautellete they shot great pieces, as Culuer- 
ings, double gunnes, and great bombards. 
UaHuyCt Voyage*, II. 79. 
They bring forward mantelet* and pavisses, and the arch- 
ers muster on the skirts of the wood. 
Scott, Ivanhoe, xxvli. 
5. A movable shelter used in a hunting-field. 
The mysteries of battues, shooting grouse from mant- 
lets, every department, in short, of modern sport with the 
gun. The Academy, Feb. 4, 188*. p. 77. 
6. A flexible covering, usually of rope, drawn 
close round a gun when it is discharged. Kni-i/r. 
Itrit.. IX. 453. 
manteletta (man-te-let'S), n. [It.: see ninii- 
telet.] In the Bom. Cut/i. ('It., a sleeveless vest- 
manticore 
ment of silk or woolen stuff, which reaches to 
the knees and is fasli-ncd in front, worn by 
cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of 
the Kntimn court. 
mantelinet (man'tel-in), n. [< OF. and F. ninii- 
telinv (Sp. mantellina), a short cloak, a riding- 
hood, < mantel, a cloak: we iiinuli/. niiinlli.} 
Same as manti-li-l, 1. 
mante!16 (man-te-la'), a. [OF., < manti-l, man- 
tle : see mantle."] In her., marked by two tri- 
angles occupying the dexter and sinister sides 
of the chief, as if a mantle had been thrown 
over it from behind : said of an escutcheon. 
Mantellia (man-tel'i-a), n. [NL., named after 
G. A.Mantell (1790-1852), an English geologist . ] 
A generic name given by Brongniart to a tree 
parts of the trunk of which are found in the Port- 
land dirt-bed (inthe Purbeck group), and consid- 
ered to belong to the cycads. It had been previously 
described by Bnckland under the family name of Cyca- 
deoidea (1828), and later (1835) received from him the ge- 
neric name Cycadites. It has also been described under 
the generic names of Zamitet and Stmbilite*. Schlmper 
adopts lluckland's name as that of a genus, changing it to 
Cycadoidea. Zlgno prefers the generic name MatiifUia. 
mantelpiece (man'tl-pes), n. [Also mantle- 
piece; ? mantel, 2, + piece.] The fitting or dec- 
oration of a mantel that is, the horizontal 
hood, cornice, or shelf carried above a fire- 
place; hence, by extension, all the marble- 
work, metal-work, or wainscoting around a fire- 
place, or masking the breast of a chimney, in- 
cluding usually one shelf or more. 
A set of Grecian-looking vases on the mantle-piece. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, HI. 
mantel-set (man'tl-set), . A set of two, three, 
or more decorative objects intended for a man- 
tel-shelf. 
mantel-shelf (man'tl-shelf), . 1. That part 
of a mantelpiece which constitutes a shelf. 
2. A mantelpiece. 
manteltree (man'tl-tre), H. [Also mantletree, 
formerly mantell-tree ; < mantel, mantle, + tree.] 
In arch., a beam behind the mantelpiece serv- 
ing as the lintel to a fireplace, sometimes re- 
placed by a brick arch, to which the name is 
also given. 
The first entrance large, and like the mantletree of a 
chimney. Sandys, Travalles, p. 136. 
Here also, as a sort of infintl.'-fi-i''' ornament, sits the 
marble kitten that Rufus made. & Judd, Margaret, I. 17. 
mantes, . Plural of mantis, 2. 
mantian (man'ti-an), a. [< Gr. /lavreia, divina- 
tion, < [tavTcveoBat, practise divination, 
a diviner: see Mantis."] Same as mantic. 
mantle (man'tik), . [< Gr. ftavruujf, of a di- 
viner or prophet, prophetic, < fiavrif, a diviner, 
seer, prophet : see Mantis.'} Relating or per- 
taining to prophecy or divination, or to one sup- 
posed to be inspired; prophetic: as, man tic f ury. 
Trench. [Rare.] 
mantichor, . See mantieore. 
mantichora (man-ti-ko'rii), n. [NL.: see man- 
ticore.] 1. Same as manticore. 2. [can.'] A 
genus of tiger-beetles of the family Cieinaelida', 
rounded by Fabricius in 1781,typical of the Man- 
ticliorinte. All are African; 31. tuberculata is 
an example. 
Mantichoridae (man-ti-kor'i-de), M. pi. [NL., 
< Mantichora + -id<r.~\ The MantichoriiKg re- 
garded as a family. 
Mantichorinae (man'ti-ko-ri'ne), ti.pl. [NL.,< 
Mantichora + -itue."] A subfamily of Cicindeli- 
dee, typified by the genus Mantichora. with no 
wings, small eyes, and separate posterior coxae. 
The species are large and black or yellow. Four genera 
are known, of which (tutu* and Amblychtla are found in 
the United States, and the rest Inhabit Africa. 
manticora (man-ti-ko'ra), w. [L.: see manti- 
core.'] 1. Same as roan tuwe. 2. [cap.] [NL.] 
Same as Mantichora, 2. 
manticore (man'ti-kor), . [Also mantieor, 
manticora, mantichor, and corruptly mantiger; 
< F. manticore, < L. mantichora, < Gr. fiavrt^paf, 
/iavrix6pac, corrupt forms of fiaprix^pof, ftapri- 
%6pac, a fabulous animal mentioned by Ctesias, 
with a human head, a lion's body, a porcupine's 
quills, and a scorpion's tail, < Pers. mardthora, 
' inan-eater,' < mard, man, + -khora, Ichaur. eat- 
er.] 1 . A fabulous monster having the body of 
a beast of prey, with a human head. In heraldry It 
is represented with the head of an old man, usually af- 
fronte. It usually has horns like those of an ox, or long and 
spiral, and some writers say that the tail and feet should 
be those of a dragon. 
Near these was placed . . . the black prince of Mono- 
raotapas : by whose side were seen the glaring cat a-moun- 
tain and the man-mimicking inantifrer. . . . That word, 
replied Martin, is a corruption of the mantichora of the 
ancients, the most noxious animal that ever infented the 
earth. IHartimu ScrMmu. 
