manucode 
manucode (man'u-kod), w. [< Manucodia.] A 
bird of Paradise of the genus Manucodia of 
Boddaert; a chalybean. The term has also been used 
for some of the true birds of Paradise of the genus Para- 
disea of Linnaeus or Manucodiata of Brisson. 
Manucodia (man-u-ko'di-a), n. [NL. (Bod- 
daert, 1783), a misprint for Manucodiata, q.y.] 
A genus of sturnoid passerine birds, either in- 
cluded in the family Paradiseidie or placed in 
Sturnidie, and typical of a subfamily Manuco- 
diince (also called Phonygama by Lesson in 
1828, and Chalylxeus by Cuvier in 1829); the 
manucodes or chalybeans. There are several spe- 
cies of these beautiful birds, with glossy blue-black plu- 
mage, inhabiting the Papuan region, or New Guinea and 
the islands zoologically related thereto. The longest- and 
best-known of these is M. viridis, called M. chalyb<mts by 
Boddaert, and Chalyb&wparadiseus by Cuvier. M. kerau- 
dreni (Lesson), M. gmldi (Gray), il. atra (Lesson), M. pyr- 
rhoptera (Temminck), M. morotenste (Schlegel), and M. 
obiensis (Bernstein) are others ; the last three form a sepa- 
rate subgenus called Lycocorax by Bonaparte in 1853. 
manucodiata (man-u-ko-di-a'ta), n. [NL., 
from a Malay name manuk-dewata, a bird of 
Paradise, lit. ' bird of the gods.' Cf . mamuque.] 
1 . An old and disused name for a bird of Para- 
dise. 
The male and female Manucordiata [read manucodiatal], 
the male having a hollow in the back, in which it is re- 
ported the female both lays and hatches her eggs. 
Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 4, 1646. 
2. [cap.] A genus of Paradise birds established 
by Brisson in 1760, equivalent to the Linnean 
genus Paradisea. Two species were included by Bris- 
son under this generic name, Manucodiata major and M. 
minor, corresponding respectively to the Paradisea apoda 
and P. regia of Linnseus, neither of which pertains to the 
later genus Manucodia. [Not in use. ) 
Manucodiinae (man-u-ko-di-i'ne), n.pl. [NL., 
< Manucodia + -incE.~\ A subfamily of birds 
named by Cabanis in 1847 from the genus Ma- 
nucodia. The term is little used ; but by G. K. Gray 
(1870) it is employed for a subfamily of Sturnidte com- 
posed of the two genera Astrapia and Manucodia. 
manuducentt (man-u-du'sent), n. [< ML. ma- 
nuducen(t-)s, ppr. of manudiicere, lead by the 
hand, < L. manus, the hand, + ducere, lead: see 
duct.] One who leads by the hand ; a manuduc- 
tor. [Bare.] 
manuduction (man-u-duk'shon), . [= Sp. 
mamidiiccion, < ML. manuductio(n-), < manudu- 
cere, lead by the hand: see manudu-cent.] A 
leading by the hand ; the act of guiding ; care- 
ful guidance. [Archaic.] 
The only door to enter into the kingdom of God was 
water, by the manuduction of the Spirit 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 151. 
It is amusing to see the imperial air with which he 
enounces his behests to applicants for his manuductwn. 
F. Hall, Recent English, p. 112. 
manuductor (man-u-duk'tor), n. [= F. manu- 
dticteitr = Sp. manuductor, < ML. manuductor, < 
manuducere, lead by the hand: see manuducent,] 
One who leads by the hand; a leader; a guide; 
specifically, in medieval music, one who indi- 
cated the rhythm to a choir by beating time 
with his hand or by striking pieces of wood or 
shell together ; a conductor. [Archaic.] 
Love be your manuductor; may the tears 
Of penitence free you from (all) future fears. 
Jordan, Poems. 
manuductory (man-u-duk'to-ri), a. [< manu- 
ductor: see-ory.] Leading by or as by the hand; 
serving as a guide, or for guidance. Sp. Words- 
worth, Church Hist., I. 229. 
manufactt (man-u-fakf), n. [< L. manufactus, 
made by hand: see manufacture.'] Manufac- 
ture. 
A great part of the linen manufact is done by women 
and children. Maydman, Naval Speculations, p. 312. 
T' encourage woolen manufact. 
LfVrfey, Collin's Walk, Hi. 
manufactory (man-u-fak'to-ri), a. and n. [< 
L. manus, the hand, + 'fdctorius, adj., neut. 
LL. factorium, an oil-press, later a factory: see 
factory. Cf. manufacture.] I.+ a. Of or per- 
taining to manufacturing ; employed in manu- 
facturing: as, a manufactory operation. Swift. 
Servile and manufactory men, that should serve the uses 
of the world in handicrafts. 
Lord, Hist. Banians (1630), p. 70. (Latham.) 
II. n.; pi. manufactories (-riz). If. The act 
of manufacturing ; manufacture. 
To give ease and encouragementto manufactory at home. 
Bolingbroke, Spirit of Patriotism, p. 190. (Latham.) 
2. A building in which goods are manufac- 
tured; more generally, any place where ar- 
ticles for use or consumption are regularly 
made : more comprehensive in scope than fac- 
tory. See factory, 4. 
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manufactural (man-u-fak'tu-ral), a. [<. manu- 
facture + -a/.] Pertaining~6r relating to manu- 
factures: as, manufactural demand. W.Taylor. 
manufacture (man-u-fak'tur), . [Formerly 
also manifacture; = F. manufacture = Sp. Pg. 
manufactura, < ML. manufactura, a making by 
hand, < L. manufactus, prop, as two words, manu 
factus, made by hand: manu, abl. of manus, 
hand ; factiis, pp. of facere, make : see main 3 , 
manual, and/octore.] 1. The operation of mak- 
ing goods or wares of any kind; the production 
of articles for use from raw or prepared mate- 
rials by giving to these materials new forms, 
qualities, properties, or combinations, whether 
by hand-labor or by machinery: used more espe- 
cially of production in a large way by machinery 
or by many hands working cooperatively. 
They have here [at Antab] a considerable manufacture 
of coarse stamped callicoes. 
Pococke, Description of the East> II. L 155. 
By means of trade and manufactures a greater quantity 
of subsistence can be annually imported into a particular 
country than what its own lands, in the actual state of 
their cultivation, could afford. 
Smith, Wealth of Nations, iv. 9. 
2. Anything made for use from raw or prepared 
materials ; collectively, manufactured articles ; 
figuratively, anything formed or produced; a 
contrivance. 
The peasants are clothed in a coarse kind of canvas, the 
manufacture of the country. Addison. 
The tendency for a long time appears to have been to 
discourage domestic linguistic manufactures, and promote 
the importation of foreign wares. 
O. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., xii. 
3f. A place or building in which manufacturing 
operations are carried on ; a factory. E. Phil- 
lips, 1706. 
manufacture (man-u-fak'tur), .; pret. and 
pp. manufactured, ppr. manufacturing. [= F. 
manufacturer = Sp. Pg. manufacturar ; from 
the noun.] I. trans. 1. To make or fabricate, 
as anything for use, especially in considerable 
quantities or numbers, or by the aid of many 
hands or of machinery; work materials into 
the form of : as, to manufacture cloth, pottery, 
or hardware; to manufacture clothing, boots 
and shoes, or cigars. 
Manufactured articles were hardly to be found. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xii. 
2. Figuratively, to produce artificially ; elabo- 
rate or get up by contrivance or special effort; 
hence, to make a show of; simulate: as, to 
manufacture words or phrases ; a manufactured 
public opinion; manufactured grief or emotion. 
Sunday journals will presently begin to pour out . . . 
gloomy crop news manufactured for the benefit of specu- 
lators. New York Tribune, Jan. 18, 1885. 
3. To use as material for manufacture ; work 
up into form for use; make something from: 
as, to manufacture wool into cloth. 
II. intrans. To be occupied in manufac- 
tures; fabricate or elaborate something. 
Plants are essentially characterized by their manufac- 
turing capacity by their power of working up mere 
mineral matters into complex organic compounds. 
Huxley, Anim. and Veg. Kingdoms. 
manufacturer (man-u-fak'tur-er), .. One who 
manufactures ; one who is engaged in the busi- 
ness of manufacturing. 
manufacturing 1 (man-u-fak'tur-ing), n. [Ver- 
bal n. of manufacture, i>.] The act or process 
of making articles for use ; the system of in- 
dustry which produces manufactured articles. 
manufacturing 2 (man-u-fak'tur-ing), p. a. 
[Ppr. of manufacture, .] Pertaining to or con- 
cerned in manufacture; industrial: as, & manu- 
facturing community. 
manul, n. [Native name.] A wild cat of Ta- 
tary and Siberia, Felts manul, of about the 
same size as the common European wildcat, 
F. catus,lmi with longer legs. It is of a yellowish 
color with whitish variegations, the tail ringed 
and the head striped with black. 
Manulea (ma-nu'le-a), . [NL. (Linnreus, 
1767), so called in allusion to the five lobes of 
the corolla; < L. manus, hand.] A genus of 
plants of the natural order Scrophitlarinete, type 
of the tribe Manulea;, distinguished by the 
five-parted or -cleft calyx, the slender suberect 
corolla, the lobes of which are often notched, 
and the entire style. There are about 25 species, 
which are herbs, rarely shrubs, and all natives of southern 
Africa. The flowers are small, generally orange-colored, 
disposed in simple or compound racemes. The fruit is 
a capsule with the valves two-cleft at the apex. 
Manulese (ma-nu'le-e), n. pi. [NL. (Endlicher, 
1836), for Manuleedi, < Manulea + -e<E.~] A tribe 
of plants of the natural order Scrophularinete, 
manure 
distinguished by having the lower leaves almost 
always opposite, the fifth stamen much reduced 
or rarely perfect, the anthers one-celled, the 
capsule dehiscent into valves, and the inflores- 
cence centripetal. The tribe includes 8 genera and 
about 100 species, which are mostly herbs, the majority 
being natives of southern Africa. Written Manuleiete by 
Bentham (1846). 
manumiset, manumisst (man-u-miz', -mis'), 
v. t. [Also mamtmize; < L. manumissus, pp. of 
manumittere, manumit: see manumit.'} Same 
as manumit. 
Whether, then, being my manumteed slave, 
He owed not himself to me? 
Masxinger, Maid of Honour, v. 2. 
The episcopal reformation has manumized kings from 
the usurpation of Rome. 
Dryden, Ded. of Plutarch's Lives. 
manumission (man-u-mish'on), n. [< F. ma- 
numission = Sp. manumision "= Pg. manvmissao 
= It. manumissione, < L. manumissio(n-), the 
freeing of a slave, < manumittere, pp. manumis- 
sus, free, manumit : see manumit.'] Liberation 
from slavery, bondage, or restraint ; a setting 
free ; emancipation. [To complete the usual legal 
ceremony of manumission in ancient Rome, the master 
turned the slave around and released him from his hand 
before a magistrate.] 
Then whereto serves it to have been enlarg'd 
With this free manumission of the mind? 
Daniel, Musophilus. 
Languages, by a regardless Adoption of some new Words, 
and Manumission of old, do often vary, yet the whole Bulk 
of the Speech keeps intire. Howett, Letters, iv. 19. 
Villeins might be enfranchised by manumission, which 
is either express or implied: express, as where a man 
granted to the villein a deed of manumission. 
Blaclfstone, Com., IL vi. 
manumit (man-u-mif), v. t. ; pret. and pp. man- 
umitted, ppr. manumitting. [= OF. manumetre, 
manumettre, manumiter = Sp. mamimitir = It. 
manomettere, manimettere, < L. manumittere, re- 
lease from one's power, set at liberty, free, en- 
franchise, < manus, hand, power, + mittere, 
send: see mission.'] To release from slavery; 
liberate from personal bondage or servitude; 
set free, as a slave ; emancipate. 
The Christian masters were not bound to manumit their 
slaves, and yet were commended if they did so. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 202. 
That Poem which you pleased to approve of so highly in 
Manuscript is now manumitted, and made free Denizen of 
the World. Bovell, Letters, ii. 78. 
=Syn. Enfranchise, Liberate, etc. See emancipate. 
manumizef, v. t. See manumise. 
manumotive (man-u-mo'tiv), a. [< L. manus, 
hand, + NL. motivus, moving: see motive.] 
Movable or moved by hand. [Rare.] 
Since the development of the lighter machines of the 
present day, the idea of a manumotwe carriage, so familiar 
to our forefathers, has been frequently mooted. 
Bury and Hittier, Cycling, p. 425. 
manumotor (man-u-mo'tor), . [< L. manus, 
hand, + motor, a mover: see motor.'] A small 
wheel-carriage so constructed that a person 
sitting in it may move it in any direction by 
hand-power. 
manurable(ma-nur'a-bl),. [<manure + -able.] 
It. That may be cultivated ; cultivable. 
This book [Doomsday] in effect gives an account not 
only of the manurable lands in every manor, town, or vil, 
but also of the number and natures of their several in- 
habitants. Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 235. 
2. That may be manured, or enriched by ma- 
nure ; capable of fertilization, 
manuraget (ma-nur'aj), n. [< manure + -age.] 
Cultivation. 
Now of the Conquerour this Isle hath "Brutaine" unto 
name, 
And with his Troians Brute began mamirage of the same. 
Warner, Albion's England, iii. 14. 
manurance (ma-nur'ans), . [< manure + 
-ance.~] 1. Cultivation. [Archaic.] 
The culture and manurance of minds in youth hath . . . 
a forcible, though unseen, operation. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 258. 
The tenant is entitled to that species of product ouly 
which grows by the industry and manurance of man, and 
to one crop only of that product. 
L. A. Goodeve, Modern Law of Real Property, p. 11. 
2, Application of manure; manuring. [Rare.] 
I will see ... if they will not grow in this soil, even 
with less toil and manurance. Thoreau, Walden, p. 177. 
manure (ma-nur'), v. t.; pret. and pp. manured, 
ppr. maniiniiif. [< ME. menuren, maynoyren, < 
OF. manocvrer, manovrcr, manage, handle, lit. 
work by hand: see manceurer and mainor.] If. 
To manage; regulate by care or attention. 
2f. To cultivate by manual labor; till; develop 
by culture. 
