manutension

[Lat. manu =with the hand, and Eng. tension.] (See extract.) "The plan of manutension, or holding violent patients for a long time by the hands of attendants."- Bucknill & Tuke: Psychological Medicine (ed. 4th), p. 676. †măn'-ward, *man-warde, adv. [Eng. man; ward .] Toward man. "After that the kindne & love of our Saviour God to manwarde appeared."- Titus ii. (1551.) Mănx, a. & 8. [See def.] A. As adj.: Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man or its inhabitants. IMG:content-0918.png:[blocks in formation] Ornith.: Puf fin us anglorum ( Pro cellar i a puf Anus ). [SHEARWATER.] man-y (aasě(, الد *man-i, *mon-1, *mon-y, a. & s. [A. S. manig, mænig, monig; cogn. with Dut. menig ; Dan. mange ; Sw. mange ; Icel. margr ; Goth. manags; Ger. manch ; M. H. Ger. manec; O. H. Ger. manac ; Ir. minic ; Gael. minig; Wel. mynych; Ru ian mnogie.] Manx-cat. A. As adj .: Numerous; consisting of a great or large number of individuals. "Probably not without many prayers, the decision was made."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. i. When followed by a or an before a singular noun, many has a more distributive or emphatic force than when joined with a plural noun. "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetne on the desert air." Gray: Elegy. B. As substantive: 1. A multitude. (A. S. manigeo , manigu .) "O thou fond many ! with what loud applause Did'st thou beat heav'n with ble ing Bolingbroke." Shakesp .: Henry IV., Pt . II ., i. 3. 2. Preceded by the indefinite article, it signifies a considerable number. "Mother of a many children." Shakesp.: Richard III., iii. 7. the common crowd. 1. The many: The great majority of people; 2. So many: (1) The same number of; as many. (2) A certain number indefinitely; as, Take so many of them, and so many of the others. 3. Too many: Too great, too powerful, too strong. "They come to vie power and expense with those that are too high and too many for them."-L'Estrange. Many is largely used in composition with adjectives, forming compounds, the meanings of which are sufficiently obvious; as many-colored, many-flowered, many-hued, .