man-about-town : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   Mahayana Buddhism
         n 1: one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a
               common search for universal salvation especially through
               faith alone; the dominant religion of China and Tibet and
               Japan [syn: {Mahayana}, {Mahayana Buddhism}]

English Dictionary: man-about-town	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
man of deeds n someone inclined to act first and think later [syn: {man of action}, man of deeds]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
man of the cloth n a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church Synonym(s): clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth Antonym(s): layman, layperson, secular
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
man of the world n a worldly-wise person [syn: sophisticate, {man of the world}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
man-about-town n a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure [syn: playboy, man-about-town, Corinthian]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
man-of-the-earth n a morning glory with long roots of western United States Synonym(s): man-of-the-earth, Ipomoea leptophylla tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato Synonym(s): wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, man-of-the-earth, manroot, scammonyroot, Ipomoea panurata, Ipomoea fastigiata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
MANPAD n a man-portable surface-to-air missile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Monophthalmos n a general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia; lost one eye; killed in a battle at Ipsus (382-301 BC) Synonym(s): Antigonus, Antigonus Cyclops, Monophthalmos
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
monopteral adj having circular columniation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
moon about v be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed [syn: mope, moon around, moon about]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Manbote \Man"bote`\, n. [AS. man man, vassal + b[omac]t recompense.] (Anglo-Saxon Law) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). --Spelman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mania \Ma"ni*a\, n. [L. mania, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to rage; cf. OE. manie, F. manie. Cf. {Mind}, n., Necromancy.] 1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. {Delirium}. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. {Mania a potu} [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn: Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See {Insanity}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I Cor. xiii. 11. Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden. 3. The human race; mankind. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i. 26. The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope. 4. The male portion of the human race. Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper. 5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. --Shak. This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world [bd]This was a man![b8] --Shak. 6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject. Like master, like man. --Old Proverb. The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor. --Blackstone. 7. 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! 8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife. I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of Com. Prayer. every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison. 9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun. A man can not make him laugh. --Shak. A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship. --Addison. 10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played. Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater, man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating, manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman, fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as distinguished from woodman). {Man ape} (Zo[94]l.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla. {Man at arms}, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed. {Man engine}, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages. {Man Friday}, a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday. {Man of straw}, a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily. {Man-of-the earth} (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipom[d2]a pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root. {Man of war}. (a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak. (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. {To be one's own man}, to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Minify \Min"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Minified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Minifying}.] [L. minor less + -fly.] 1. To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen. 2. To degrade by speech or action.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Minivet \Min"i*vet\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A singing bird of India of the family {Campephagid[91]}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monopathy \Monop"athy\, n. [Gr. [?]; mo`nos alone + [?], [?], to suffer.] Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- {Mon`o*path"ic}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monopathy \Monop"athy\, n. [Gr. [?]; mo`nos alone + [?], [?], to suffer.] Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- {Mon`o*path"ic}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monopetalous \Mon`opet"alous\, a. [Mono- + petal: cf. F. monop[82]tale.] (Bot.) Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous. Note: The most recent authors restrict this form to flowers having a solitary petal, as in species of {Amorpha}, and use {gamopetalous} for a corolla of several petals combined into one piece. See Illust. of {Gamopetalous}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monophthong \Mon"oph*thong\, n. [Gr. [?] with one sound; mo`nos alone + [?] sound, voice.] 1. A single uncompounded vowel sound. 2. A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monophthongal \Mon`oph*thon"gal\, a. Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monophyodont \Mon`ophy"odont\, a. [Gr. [?] single (mo`nos alone + [?] to produce) + [?], [?], a tooth.] (Anat.) Having but one set of teeth; -- opposed to {diphyodont}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monopode \Mon"o*pode\, n. 1. One of a fabulous tribe or race of Ethiopians having but one leg and foot. --Sir J. Mandeville. Lowell. 2. (Bot.) A monopodium.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Monopodium \[d8]Mon`opo"dium\, n.; pl. L. {Monopodia}, E. {-ums}. [L. See {Monopody}.] (Bot.) A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to {sympodium}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monopodial \Mon`opo"dial\, a. (Bot.) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monopody \Monop"ody\, n. [Mono- + Gr. [?], [?], foot: cf. [?], [?], one-footed.] (Pros.) A measure of but a single foot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Monopteron \[d8]Monop"teron\, n.; pl. {Monoptera}. [NL. See {Monopteral}.] (Arch.) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monopteral \Monop"teral\, a. [Gr. [?] with a row of pillars only; mo`nos alone, only + [?] feather, wing, also, a row of pillars: cf. F. monopt[8a]re.] (Arch.) Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monoptote \Mon"op*tote\, n. [L. monoptotum, Gr. [?]; mo`nos single + [?] apt to fall, fallen, fr. [?] to fall; cf. [?] case.] (Gram.) 1. A noun having only one case. --Andrews. 2. A noun having only one ending for the oblique cases.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mummified \Mum"mi*fied\, a. Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mummify \Mum"mi*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mummified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mummifying}.] [Mummy + -fy: cf. F. momifier.] To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy. --Hall (1646).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mump \Mump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mumped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mumping}.] 1. To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly. Old men who mump their passion. --Goldsmith. 2. To work over with the mouth; to mumble; as, to mump food. 3. To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.