managery (ag as ig)

[O. Fr. menagerie.] 1. Management, conduct, direction, administration. "None were punished for the ill managery and conduct of the expedition."- Baker: Charles I. (an. 1625). IMG:content-0886.png:[blocks in formation] after a Homer."- Mickle: Di ertation on the Lusiad, . [MANAGE, v.] *7. To make subservient. 8. To husband; to treat or use with caution or sparingly. 9. To treat with caution or addre ; to use cau tiously or wisely. B. Intransitive : 1. To carry on, control, or direct affairs. "Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant What their unerring wisdom sees thee want." Dryden: Juvenal, sat. x. 2. To contrive. *măn-age (age as ig), s. [French manège = the training or management of a horse, from Sp. man eggio a managing, a handling, a riding school, from mano the hand; Lat. manus; Ital. maneg giare to manage.] 1. The treatment, training, or management of a horse. "They are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly Shakesp.: As You Like It , i. 1. 2. Conduct, management, direction, admin i str a IMG:content-0887.png:[blocks in formation] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Conducting, guiding, controlling, or admin is tering. 2. Economical, frugal, contriving, planning. "Vir Frugi signified, at one and the same time, a sober and managing man, an honest man, and a man of substance."-Goldsmith: The Bee , No. 5. C. As subst.: The same as MANAGEMENT (q. v.). "And let the goodne of the managing Rase out the blot of foul attaining quite." Daniel: Civil Wars, iv. măn-a-kin, s. [Old Dut. a dim in. from a mannequin manneken 1. Ord . Lang .: A little man, a dwarf, a manikin (q. v.). "This is a dear manakin to you, Sir Tobey."- Shakesp .: Twelfth Night , iii. 2. taining some sixty species; closely allied to the 2. Ornith.: Pipride, a family of Mesomyodi, con Tyrants. They are all of small size, somewhat shy in their habits, and are found in the wooded portions of South America. măn-a-teē', †măn-a-tî', *măn-a-tin, s . [Etym. doubtful. Aga iz says from the native name; McNicoll adopts the etym. given in the extract, as does Prof. Flower in Encyc . Brit . (ed. 9th), xv. 456.] Zool.: Any individual of the genus Manatus (q.v.), more particularly M. australis ( american us ), first discovered by the early Spanish 'colonists. Dr. Haslan was of the opinion that there were two species of Manatus in this IMG:content-0888.jpg:[graphic][merged small][merged small] ing a single species. rated the African Desmarest sep a Manatee from its American congener, on account of cranial differences, not, however, of great importance, and called it M. senega lens is . Manatees are found in West India islands, on the American coast, from creeks, and estuaries of some of the Florida as far as 20 S., in the great rivers of Brazil, on the coast of Africa from 16° N. to 10° S., and in Lake Tchad. They are slow and inactive, and quite inoffensive; they browse on aquatic, preferably fluviatile, plants in shallow water. Their numbers are rapidly diminishing, as they are hunted for the sake of their skin, the oil they yield, and their flesh. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. manatidæ ma-năt-1-dæ, subst. pl. [Mod. Lat. manat ( us ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.] Zool .: Sea-cows; the single family of Illiger's Sirenia, the Herbivorous Cetacea of F. Cuvier. The Manatide, however, differ from Whales in many important particulars. The fan ily contains three genera: Halicore, Manatus, and the recently extinct Rhytina. *măn-a-tin, s. [MANATEE.] *ma-na-tion, s . [Lat. manatio , from mano = to flow out.) The act of i uing or flowing out of something else. măn-a-tus, subst. [Mod. Lat., from manatee (q. v.).) 1. Zool .: The typical genus of the family Manatide (q. v.). Body pisciform, ending in a shovel-like tail with rounded edges; no traces of hind limbs, either externally or internally; no dorsal fin. The fore limbs are flattened paddles, without traces of fingers, but with three diminutive flat nails near their extremities. The upper tip is tumid, cleft into two lobes, which are divaricated to receive food, and contracted to seize it and convey it into the mouth. Eyes and ear-orifice minute. Skin gray, wrinkled, covered with delicate hairs; upper and under-lip setigerous. Two, if not three, species are known. They feed solely on aquatic vegetation. [MANATEE.] and 2. Palæont.: (See extract.) "Extinct species of Manatus have been found in the Post-pliocene deposits of Eastern North America from Maryland to Florida."-Wallace: Geog. Distrib. of Ani mals , ii. 210. măn-a-wa, subst. [Maori.] The green aromatic 2618 A. As adj.: Belonging to or found in Man cho or i a. B. As subst.: The same as MANCHOO (q. v.). Man chur i an-crane, s. Ornith.: Grus viridirostris . It is a favorite bird among the Chinese, and a considerable number of them are kept in captivity at Pekin. It is one of the commonest subjects chosen by Chinese artists, and their studies of it are extremely vigorous. Man chur i an sub-region, s . Geog. & Zool.: An interesting and very productive district, corresponding in the east to the Mediterranean sub-region in the West, or rather perhaps to all western temperate Europe. Its limits are not very well defined, but it probably includes all Japan: the Corea and Manchuria to the Amour Peling mountains. river, and to the lower slopes of the Khingan and