manubria ted (manu briated)

[ theridium in the Characeæ. Also called handle. Compare head, 6 (c), and head - cell. From the center of the inner face of each shield a cylindrical cell, termed a handle or manubrium , projects inwards nearly to the center of the globe. Bennett and Murray , Cryptogamic Bot., p. 177. 4. In organ - building, a stop-knob or handle. manucaption (man-u-kap's hon), n. [ This manucaption was intended to secure the attendance of the members. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 424. manucaptor (man-u-kap'tor), n. [ nucaptor , manus , hand, + captor , a taker (hunter): see captor .] In old law , one who stands bail for the appearance of another; a surety. For each of them (newly chosen representatives] manu captors or bailsmen were provided, who were bound for their obedience to the writ, and the names of the manu captors were entered in the return. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 424. manucode manucode (man'ū-kōd), n. [ Manucodia (man-u-kō'di-a), n. [ NL. (Boddaert, 1783), a misprint for Manucodiata, q. v.] A genus of sturnoid pa erine birds, either included in the family Paradiseidæ or placed in Sturnidæ, and typical of a subfamily Manuco diinæ (also called Phonygama by Le on in 1828, and Chalybœus by Cuvier in 1829); the manucodes or chalybeans. There are several spe cies of these beautiful birds, with glo y blue-black plumage, inhabiting the Papuan region, or New Guinea and the islands zoologically related thereto. The longest-and best-known of these is M. virid is, called M. chalybœus by Boddaert, and Chalybœus paradise us by Cuvier. M. kerau dreni (Le on), M. gouldi (Gray), M. atra (Le on), M. pyrrhoptera (Temminck), M. morotensis (Schlegel), and M. obiensis (Bernstein) are others; the last three form a separate subgenus called Lycocorax by Bonaparte in 1853. manucodiata (man-u-kō-di-a'tä), n. [NL., from a Malay name manuk - dewata, a bird of 3620