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The price of a man's life or head, which was paid to the lord for the killing Old blind Appius Claudius, or old Cato the Censor, was of his villein. Bailey, 1731. not stronger than the young men who were in his manus; and yet both of them ruled their respective households man worthy m (man'wer"Thi), а. Worthy W of a with absolute sway. W. E. Hearn, Aryan Household, p. 28. man; becoming a man. [Rare.] (b) More specifically, the power of a Roman husband over his wife: as, in manu (of a woman), under the marital authority. manuscript (man'ū-skript), a. and n. [F. man us crit = Sp. manuscrito = Pg. man usc rip to It. manos crit to, man us crit to, a. and n., ML. Gr. Μονάοιδα (Ptolemy), cf. W. Mon, L. Mona, manuscript us, a., L. prop. as two words, manu script us, written by hand, ML. (neut.) manu scriptum, n., a book or paper written by hand; In a manuscript account of the building of the palace, it is mentioned that at the entrance were two columns. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 250. 2. Consisting of writings or written books. He expended upwards of £300 in arranging and improv. ing the manuscript library at Lambeth. Bp. Porteus, Abp. Secker, p. 55. II. n. 1. A book, paper, or instrument written by hand with ink or other pigment, or with a pencil or the like; a writing of any kind, as distinguished from anything that is printed. Especially-2. Such a book, paper, or instru ment so written before the introduction and general adoption of printing in the fifteenth cen tury, or in a style in vogue before the invention of printing. The oldest surviving manuscripts are Egyptian, of which some are at least 3,500 years old. Ancient manuscripts are written on papyrus, parchment, which was rolled for convenience about a rod. Greek or vellum, and are usually in the form of a long band manuscripts are in uncial, cursive, or minuscule characters. The uncials are the oldest form, and resemble modern capitals. The cursive characters are derived from the uncials, though they came to differ much from these in shape, and are used in manuscripts from the second century before Christ. The minuscule writing is that practised with few or no exceptions since the ninth century; the forms of the earliest printed Greek closely resemble it. Latin manuscripts are in capital, uncial, cursive, or minuscule characters. The capitals are the earliest form, but their use was not entirely discontinued until the Caroling i an epoch. The uncials, of which the letters are char a cat tai ned their highest perfection in the fourth century, terized by their rounded shape, were developed very early, and continued in use until the ninth century. The cursive writing was developed from the uncial; it appears in the graffiti found scratched on the walls of Pompeii, Rome, etc., and is the parent of many old systems of writing, as the Lombard and Me roving i an. The minuscule style was developed in the eighth century, in the monastery of St. Martin at Tours, and reached its perfection in the twelfth century. In this style are written the splendid manuin monasteries, and enriched with superbly illuminated scripts of the middle ages, produced for the most part initial letters and elaborately painted miniatures. Upon the introduction of printing, the minuscule writing supplied models to the earliest type-makers. Palimpsest manuscripts are manuscripts written in antiquity or in the early middle ages upon papyrus or vellum from which earlier writing had been erased. Modern science has been succe ful in deciphering the imperfectly effaced characters of many such manuscripts, and has recovered in this way some of our most valuable remnants of cla ic literature. The three most important Biblical manuscripts extant are the Alexandrian Codex, the Vatican Codex, and the Sinaitic Codex. (See codex.) These are of course all uncials. See capital1, cursive, majuscule, minuscule, uncial. Often abbreviated MS., plural MSS. manuscript (man'ū-skript), v. t. [ Anglesey), + -isk, mod. E. -ish1. Cf. Welsh, Scotch, Erse, similarly contracted. Cf. Man nian.] I. a. Of or belonging to the Isle of Man, situated in the Irish Sea, between England and Ireland, or to its language. Yf any suche Maniske or Iryshe Roge Vacabounde or Beggar ben alredy or shall at any tyme hereafter be set on Land in any parte of England or of Wales, the same shalbe conveyghed to the next port in or neer whiche they were landed, and from thence be transported. Laws of Eliz . (1572), quoted in Ribton-Turner's [Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 109. Manx cat. See catl . - Manx puffin, the shearwater, Puffin us anglorum . II. n. 1. The native language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, which belongs to the Gadhelic branch of the Celtic tongues, and is thus closely allied to the Irish and the Gaelic. -2. pl . Natives or inhabitants of the Isle of Man; Manxmen.-3. [l. c.] The shearwater, Puffin us anglorum . Puffin us Manxman (mangks' man), n.; pl. Manxmen (-men). A man of the Isle of Man. See Manx, n., 2. Manxwoman (mangks'wum"an), n.; pl. Manx women (-wim"en). A woman of the Isle of Man. See Manx, n., 2. manyl (men'i), a.; compar. more, superl. most (formerly regularly maniest). [ = MLG. mannich, mennich = OHG. manag, manac, MHG. manec, G. mannig (in comp.), usually contr. manch = Icel. margr (for * mangr ) = Sw. många = Dan. mange = Goth. manags , many. Root unknown; according to one view, lit. as if * manny , i. e. 'containing men' (involv- ing the notion of a crowd of persons), -ig , an adj. suffix, E. -y1. But this ignores the similar and prob. cognate forms Ir. minic = Gael. minig = W. mynych , frequent, and OBulg . műподů , mnogŭ = Sloven. mnog = Serv. mnozhina Bohem. mnohy , etc., = Ru . mnogie , pl., many; and there is no instance in which an AS. or Goth. adj. formed from a noun by adding the suffix -ig or -ags has developed another noun by the formative orig. contained in the noun many (AS. menigu ): see manyl , n. Whatever the root, it is clear that the word has no con- nection with L. magnus , great: see main2 . 1. Being or consisting of a large number of units or individuals; numerous: often used alone, the noun being understood. See manyl, n. To Winchestre and to Wych ich wente to the feire, With mony maner marchaundise as my mayster hihte. Piers Plowman (A), v. 120. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. Ps. xxxiv. 19. For many shall come in my name,.. and shall de- ceive many . Mat. xxiv. 5. He is not the best wright that hewes the maniest speals. Ray , Proverbs (2d ed., 1678), p. 369. manuscriptal (man'u-skrip-tal), a. [ script + -al .] + Pertaining to or of the nature of manuscript; found or occurring in manuscript Evadne . Is there none else here? or manuscripts. [Rare.] The more absurd the manuscriptal letter, They paint, from thence, some fancy'd beauty better. Byron, Epistle to a Friend. A manuscriptal painting of the 9th century in the Cotton Library. Encyc . Brit ., XII. 394. man us tup ration (manū - stū - prā shon), n . Masturbation. manutenencyt, man ute nancył (man-u-ten'ens i, -an-si), n. [OF. manutenence , ML. manutenentia , manutenen (t-) s, ppr. of manutenere , hold in hand, maintain: see maintain . Cf. main tenance .] 1. Maintenance. Abp . Sancroft , Sermons, p. 83.-2. A writ used in cases of maintenance. Mel anti us. None but a fearful conscience; that's too many. Beau. and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 1. 2. Being one of a large number; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind: followed by a, an, or another, used distributively. tively. The phrase many a one, so used, was formerly many one without the article. I've met wi' mony a gentle knicht, That gae me sic a fill. King Henry (Child's Ballads, I. 151). Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Gray, Elegy. Tennyson, Guinevere So she, like many another babbler, hurt Whom she would soothe. many 3. Being of a certain number, large or small; plural (especially in the phrase the many as 3622 large and blue, and its tuberous roots have emetic properties. opposed to the one ): after a term of qualificamany-sided (men'i-sided), a. Having many tion ( as . (as, so , too , and especially how in interroside sides; hence, figuratively, having many aspects, gations): often with the qualified noun omitted: qualities, or capabilities; of diversified range as, how many people were there? how many will or scope; not narrowly limited. got as many as the room will hold; not so many as before; too many men are dishonest. Behold how many things they witne against thee. Mark xv. 4. Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such store, When one is one too many? Shak., C. of E., iii. 1. 35. The Greek will drink as many Gla es as there be Letters in his Mistre 's name. Howell, Letters, ii. 54. ... See def. 2. IMG:content-0216.png:[blocks in formation] many wise, many ways (men'i-wiz, -wāz), adv . ously. Manzanilla (man-za-nil'ä), n. [Sp., perhaps so called from a town near Seville.] Sherry of unusually dry and light character; specifically, so many herrings. All so many as his menne mighten areche. A lisa under of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 441. de Barra med a in Spain. manzanita (man-za-nē'tä), n. [Sp., dim. of manzana , apple.] One of several shrubs or deer, to one of the principal churches. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 11. (b) Such a number indefinitely or distributively: as, he took so many of these, and so many of those, and so many of the others. -Too many, too strong; too powerful; too able: as, they are too many for us; he is too many, or one too many, for us. [Colloq.] [ Many is prefixed to a number of participial adjectives, forming compounds which explain themselves: as, many -armed, many -colored, many cornered, many -eyed.]=Syn. 1. Manifold, multiplied, various, divers, sundry, frequent.