manrope (manrop)

Naut., one of the two ropes suspended from stanchions one on each side of a gangway or ladder, used in ascending and descending a ship's side, hatchways, etc. -Man-rope knot. See knot1. IMG:content-0206.png:[blocks in formation] manse2 (mans), n. [ mans us , 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 sometimes 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. Acro the meadows by the grandmawthorne, Capital manset, a principal residence; a manor-house or ford's court. [ME. manship, man man-servant (man's ervant), n.; pl. men -ser vants (men'sėr"vants). A man who is a servant. manshipt (man's hip), n. chip, chip, chip, I beseche & preie, Meyntenes zit zoure manchip manli a while. nuriana. mano very (ma-no'vėr-i), n.; pl. manoveries (-iz). [A var. of maneuver (ME. mainovre ): astrology), 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, Il Penseroso, 1. 92. 3. A dwelling-house of the better cla ; 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. Words worth, 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 opera cio uns Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns That longen to the moone. Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 402. 5. In astrol., the sign in which the sun or any planet has its special residence; a house. Phebus the sonne ful joly was and cleer; For he was neigh his exalt a cion In Martes face, and in his mansion In Aries, the colerik hote signe. Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 42. mansiont (man's hon), 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 mansion ing therein. J. Mede , Paraphrase of St. Peter (1642), p. 16. mansionary (man's hon-a-ri), a. [=F. mansion naire = Sp. It. mansion a rio,