mane (man)

* manu (not recorded, but indicated by the cognate forms, and by the derivs. * gemane, ge mone, maned, and mene = OS. men i = OHG. menni = Icel. men, a necklace) = OFries. mona [ mane , mayne , = = MD. mane, D. maan, manen = OHG. mana, MHG. mane, man, G. mane, now commonly mähne = Icel. mön = Sw. Dan. man, mane (cf. deriv. Icel. makki = Sw. Dan. manke, the upper part of a horse's neck); orig. prob. simply neck'; = W. mwn, neck (> myngen, mane), Ir. muin, neck (> muince, collar), = Skt. many a, the r the nape of the neck, = Gr. dial. μάννος, песк, μάνος, μόννος, a necklace, μαννάκιον, μανιάκης, α necklace; cf. L. monile, a necklace.] The long hair growing on the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse, lion, etc., as distinguished from the shorter hair elsewhere. When, as in the horse, it grows on the middle line of the back of the neck, the mane commonly falls on one side, but it may be stiff and erect. In the lion the long and shaggy mane covers the whole neck and part of the fore quarters. Thin mane , thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide; Look, what a horse should have he did not lack. Shak ., Venus and Adonis, 1. 298. Each wave was crested with tawny foam, Like the mane of a chestnut steed. Scott , L. of L. M., i. 28. Maggie... looked over the book, eagerly seizing one corner and to ing back her mane . George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , i. 3. man-eater (man'ē"ter), n. 1. A cannibal.2. In India, a tiger that has acquired a taste for human flesh; a tiger supposed or known to have a special propensity for killing and eating human beings. The name is sometimes extended to the lion and the hyena, on the same supposition. The regular man - eater is generally an old tiger whose vigour is pa ed, and whose teeth are worn and defective; it takes up its abode in the neighbourhood of a village, the population of which it finds an easier prey than the larger or wilder animals. W. H. Flower , Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 386. 3. One of several kinds of large sharks supposed to be specially formidable to man; spe cifically, Car cha rod on rondelet i, a very large shark of the family Lamnida. This shark has straight narrow triangular teeth, very slightly serrated or crenulated, in both jaws. The body is stout and fusiform, with a pointed snout; there are two dorsal fins, one large, between the pectorals and the ventrals, the other small and posterior; the anal fin is like the second dorsal; the caudal fin is crescent i form; and there are five branchial apertures, all in front of the pectorals. It has been found 40 feet long, though it averages so much le that 13 feet is a good size. It is a shark of the high seas, found in nearly all tropical waters, frequently pa ing a considerable distance both northward and southward. Teeth much like those of the living species have been found in the Pliocene and Miocene deposits, as well as in the ooze of the Pacific ocean, indicating individuals that must have been about 80 feet long. 4. The dobson or hellgrammite. [Local, U. S.] mane-comb (mānkōm), n. A comb for combing a horse's mane and tail. A third cla of the street-sellers of tools are the vendors of curry-combs and brushes, mane-combs, scrapers, and clipping instruments. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 400. maned (mand), a . [ mane + -ed2.] 1. Having a mane, as a horse or lion; jubate. He said, and to his chariot joined his steeds Swift, brazen-hoofed, and maned with wavy gold. Cowper , Iliad, viii. 49. 2. In her., same as crined. - Maned ant-eater, Myrmecophaga jubata . - Maned_fruit-bat, Pteropus ju- bat us , a native of the Philippine Islands. manège (ma-nāzh'), n . and a. [ manège =Sp. Pg . manejo , maneggio , the handling or train- ing of a horse, riding, a riding-school: see man- age, n.] I. n. 1. The art of breaking, training, and riding horses; the art of horsemanship.-2. A school for training horses and teaching horse- manship. II.t a . Managed: said of a horse. I sent my black manege horse and furniture with a friend to his Matie then at Oxford. IMG:content-0177.png:[graphic] Evelyn, Diary, July 12, 1643.