Man

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To tame, as a hawk.

II. Man ·noun The human race; mankind.

III. Man ·vt To furnish with a servants.

IV. Man ·vt To wait on as a manservant.

V. Man ·noun A human being;

— opposed tobeast.

VI. Man ·noun The male portion of the human race.

VII. Man ·noun A married man; a husband;

— correlative to wife.

VIII. Man ·noun An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

IX. Man ·noun One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

X. Man ·vt To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to Fortify.

XI. Man ·noun Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.

XII. Man ·noun One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.

XIII. Man ·noun One, or any one, indefinitely;

— a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.

XIV. Man ·noun A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!.

XV. Man ·vt To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to Guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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