man a get (manaj)

[Early mod. E. also men age; (ML. managium ), = giare (= F. manier ), handle, touch, treat, manage, He sits me fast, however I do stir, And now hath made me to his hand so right That in the menage myself takes delight. Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 527), His horses are bred better; for besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage , and to that end riders dearly hired. Shak., As you Like it, i. 1. 13. 2. A ring for the training of horses and the practice of horsemanship; a riding-school. I went with Lord Cornwall is to see the young gallants do their exercise, Mr. Faubert having newly rail'd in a manage, and fitted it for the academy. Evelyn , Diary, Dec. 18, 1684. 3. In general, training; discipline; treatment. There is one sort of manage for the great, Another for inferior. IMG:content-0159.png:[blocks in formation] 3603 5. Bearing; behavior. His talke was sweet, his order fine, and his whole men age brave. G. Harvey, New Letter. manage (man'āj), v.; pret. and pp. managed, ppr. managing . [ I do but keep the peace; put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me. Shak ., R. and J., i. 1. 76. Their women very skilfull and actiue in shooting and managing any sort of weapon, like the auncient Amazons. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 340. His [Schomberg's] dragoons had still to learn how to managerial