English Dictionary: manor | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mainor \Main"or\, n. [Anglo-Norm. meinoure, OF. manuevre. See {Maneuver}.] (O. Eng. Law) A thing stolen found on the person of the thief. Note: A thief was said to be [bd]taken with the mainor,[b8] when he was taken with the thing stolen upon him, that is, in his hands. --Wharton. --Bouvier. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mammary \Mam"ma*ry\, a. [Cf. F. mammaire.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mamm[91] or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins. | |
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Mammer \Mam"mer\, v. i. [Cf. G. memme coward, poltroon.] To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Manner \Man"ner\, n. [OE. manere, F. mani[8a]re, from OF. manier, adj., manual, skillful, handy, fr. (assumed) LL. manarius, for L. manuarius belonging to the hand, fr. manus the hand. See {Manual}.] 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land. --2 Kings xvii. 26. The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful,manner. --Atterbury. 2. Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style. Specifically: (a) Customary method of acting; habit. Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them. --Acts xvii. 2. Air and manner are more expressive than words. --Richardson. (b) pl. Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. --Emerson. (c) The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist. 3. Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already. The bread is in a manner common. --1 Sam. xxi.5. 4. Sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds. Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs. --Luke xi. 42. I bid thee say, What manner of man art thou? --Coleridge. Note: In old usage, of was often omitted after manner, when employed in this sense. [bd]A manner Latin corrupt was her speech.[b8] --Chaucer. {By any manner of means}, in any way possible; by any sort of means. {To be taken} {in, [or] with} {the manner}. [A corruption of to be taken in the mainor. See {Mainor}.] To be taken in the very act. [Obs.] See {Mainor}. {To make one's manners}, to make a bow or courtesy; to offer salutation. {Manners bit}, a portion left in a dish for the sake of good manners. --Hallwell. Syn: Method; mode; custom; habit; fashion; air; look; mien; aspect; appearance. See {Method}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Manor \Man"or\, n. [OE. maner, OF. maneir habitation, village, F. manoir manor, prop. the OF. inf. maneir to stay, remain, dwell, L. manere, and so called because it was the permanent residence of the lord and of his tenants. See {Mansion}, and cf. {Remain}.] 1. (Eng. Law) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family. My manors, rents, revenues, l forego. --Shak. Note: In these days, a manor rather signifies the jurisdiction and royalty incorporeal, than the land or site, for a man may have a manor in gross, as the law terms it, that is, the right and interest of a court-baron, with the perquisites thereto belonging. 2. (American Law) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services. --Burrill. {Manor house}, or {Manor seat}, the house belonging to a manor. | |
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Manuary \Man"u*a*ry\, a. [L. manuarius, fr. manus hand.] Manual. -- n. An artificer. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Manure \Ma*nure"\, n. Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Manure \Ma*nure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Manured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Manuring}.] [Contr, from OF. manuvrer, manovrer, to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, F. man[?]uvker. See {Manual}, {Ure}, {Opera}, and cf. {Inure}.] 1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. --Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. --Donne. 2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance. The blood of English shall manure the ground. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mean \Mean\, a. [Compar. {Meaner}; superl. {Meanest}.] [OE. mene, AS. m[?]ne wicked; akin to m[be]n, a., wicked, n., wickedness, OS. m[?]n wickedness, OHG. mein, G. meineid perjury, Icel. mein harm, hurt, and perh. to AS. gem[?]ne common, general, D. gemeen, G. gemein, Goth. gam[a0]ins, and L. communis. The AS. gem[?]ne prob. influenced the meaning.] 1. Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble. [bd]Of mean parentage.[b8] --Sir P. Sidney. The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself. --Is. ii. 9. 2. Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive. Can you imagine I so mean could prove, To save my life by changing of my love ? --Dryden. 3. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable. The Roman legions and great C[91]sar found Our fathers no mean foes. --J. Philips. 4. Of poor quality; as, mean fare. 5. Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality. Note: Mean is sometimes used in the formation of compounds, the sense of which is obvious without explanation; as, meanborn, mean-looking, etc. Syn: Base; ignoble; abject; beggarly; wretched; degraded; degenerate; vulgar; vile; servile; menial; spiritless; groveling; slavish; dishonorable; disgraceful; shameful; despicable; contemptible; paltry; sordid. See {Base}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Memoir \Mem"oir\, or pl. Memoirs \Mem"oirs\, n. [F. m[82]moire, m., memorandum, fr. m[82]moire, f., memory, L. memoria. See {Memory}.] 1. A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See {History}, 2. 2. A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness. 3. An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Memory \Mem"o*ry\, n.; pl. {Memories}. [OE. memorie, OF. memoire, memorie, F. m[82]moire, L. memoria, fr. memor mindful; cf. mora delay. Cf. {Demur}, {Martyr}, {Memoir}, {Remember}.] 1. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. Memory is the purveyor of reason. --Rambler. 2. The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong. 3. The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands. 4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man. And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining. --Milton. 5. Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory. The memory of the just is blessed. --Prov. x. 7. That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth. --Shak. The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory. --Macaulay. 6. A memorial. [Obs.] These weeds are memories of those worser hours. --Shak. Syn: {Memory}, {Remembrance}, {Recollection}, {Reminiscence}. Usage: Memory is the generic term, denoting the power by which we reproduce past impressions. Remembrance is an exercise of that power when things occur spontaneously to our thoughts. In recollection we make a distinct effort to collect again, or call back, what we know has been formerly in the mind. Reminiscence is intermediate between remembrance and recollection, being a conscious process of recalling past occurrences, but without that full and varied reference to particular things which characterizes recollection. [bd]When an idea again recurs without the operation of the like object on the external sensory, it is remembrance; if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and endeavor found, and brought again into view, it is recollection.[b8] --Locke. {To draw to memory}, to put on record; to record. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Gower. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Menhir \Men"hir\, n. [F. Armor. men stone + hir high.] A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe. | |
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Mime \Mime\, v. i. To mimic. [Obs.] -- {Mim"er}, n. | |
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Miner \Min"er\, n. [Cf. F. mineur.] 1. One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies. (b) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia ({Myzantha garrula}). {Miner's elbow} (Med.), a swelling on the black of the elbow due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon; -- so called because of frequent occurrence in miners. {Miner's inch}, in hydraulic mining, the amount of water flowing under a given pressure in a given time through a hole one inch in diameter. It is a unit for measuring the quantity of water supplied. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Minor \Mi"nor\, a. [L., a comparative with no positive; akin to AS. min small, G. minder less, OHG. minniro, a., min, adv., Icel. minni, a., minnr, adv., Goth. minniza, a., mins, adv., Ir. & Gael. min small, tender, L. minuere to lessen, Gr. [?], Skr. mi to damage. Cf. {Minish}, {Minister}, {Minus}, {Minute}.] 1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body. 2. (Mus.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. {Asia Minor} (Geog.), the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. {Minor mode} (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn subjects. {Minor orders} (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as doorkeepers, acolytes, etc. {Minor scale} (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as, ^{6/F}, ^{7/G[sharp]}, ^{8/A}. But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in the descending, scale, thus: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Minor \Mi"nor\, n. 1. A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age. Note: In hereditary monarchies, the minority of a sovereign ends at an earlier age than of a subject. The minority of a sovereign of Great Britain ends upon the completion of the eighteenth year of his age. 2. (Logic) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness. 3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar. | |
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Momier \Mom"i*er\, n. [F. m[93]mier, fr. OF. momer, mommer, to mumm, to mask one's self.] A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century. | |
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Mommery \Mom"mer*y\, n. See {Mummery}. --Rowe. | |
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Moner \Mo"ner\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Monera. | |
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d8Moneron \[d8]Mo*ne"ron\, n.; pl. L. {Monera}; E. {Monerons}. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the Monera. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moneyer \Mon"ey*er\, n. [From {Money}; cf. OF. monoier, F. monnoayeur, L. monetarius a master of the mint. Cf. {Monetary}.] 1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. [Obs. or R.] 2. An authorized coiner of money. --Sir M. Hale. {The Company of Moneyers}, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges. | |
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Moon \Moon\, n. [OE. mone, AS. m[d3]na; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. m[be]no, G. mond, Icel. m[be]ni, Dan. maane, Sw. m[86]ne, Goth. m[c7]na, Lith. men[?], L. mensis month, Gr. [?] moon, [?] month, Skr. m[be]s moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. m[be] to measure), from its serving to measure the time. [fb]271. Cf. {Mete} to measure, {Menses}, {Monday}, {Month}.] 1. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See {Lunar month}, under {Month}. The crescent moon, the diadem of night. --Cowper. 2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn. 3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month. --Shak. 4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See {Half-moon}. {Moon blindness}. (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. {Moon dial}, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. {Moon face}, a round face like a full moon. {Moon madness}, lunacy. [Poetic] {Moon month}, a lunar month. {Moon trefoil} (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic ({Medicago arborea}). See {Medic}. {Moon year}, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen. | |
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Mooner \Moon"er\, n. One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [R.] --Dickens. | |
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Moonery \Moon"er*y\, n. Conduct of one who moons. [R.] | |
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Mummer \Mumm"er\, n. [Cf. OF. mommeur. See {Mumm}, and cf. {Momier}.] One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon. Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. --Milton. | |
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Mummery \Mum"mer*y\, n.; pl. {Mummeries}. [F. momerie, of Dutch or German origin. See {Mumm}.] 1. Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. --Fenton. 2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies. --Bacon. | |
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Mynheer \Myn*heer"\, n. [D. mijnheer.] The Dutch equivalent of Mr. or Sir; hence, a Dutchman. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Manor, DE Zip code(s): 19720 Manor, GA Zip code(s): 31550 Manor, PA (borough, FIPS 47000) Location: 40.34654 N, 79.67076 W Population (1990): 2627 (978 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 15665 Manor, TX (city, FIPS 46440) Location: 30.34597 N, 97.55571 W Population (1990): 1041 (417 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78653 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Miner, MO (city, FIPS 48656) Location: 36.89383 N, 89.53460 W Population (1990): 1218 (483 housing units) Area: 9.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Minier, IL (village, FIPS 49555) Location: 40.43378 N, 89.31401 W Population (1990): 1155 (479 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61759 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Minnora, WV Zip code(s): 25268 | |
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Minor, AL (CDP, FIPS 49072) Location: 33.52530 N, 86.94761 W Population (1990): 3313 (1349 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Monroe, CT Zip code(s): 06468 Monroe, GA (city, FIPS 52192) Location: 33.79409 N, 83.71193 W Population (1990): 9759 (3933 housing units) Area: 24.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30655 Monroe, IA (city, FIPS 53355) Location: 41.52016 N, 93.10455 W Population (1990): 1739 (730 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50170 Monroe, IN (town, FIPS 50202) Location: 40.74451 N, 84.94054 W Population (1990): 788 (268 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46772 Monroe, LA (city, FIPS 51410) Location: 32.51165 N, 92.08492 W Population (1990): 54909 (21610 housing units) Area: 67.8 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71201, 71203 Monroe, MA Zip code(s): 01350 Monroe, ME Zip code(s): 04951 Monroe, MI (city, FIPS 55020) Location: 41.91670 N, 83.38603 W Population (1990): 22902 (8840 housing units) Area: 23.3 sq km (land), 2.6 sq km (water) Monroe, NC (city, FIPS 43920) Location: 34.98706 N, 80.54183 W Population (1990): 16127 (6347 housing units) Area: 35.9 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28110, 28112 Monroe, NE (village, FIPS 32585) Location: 41.47372 N, 97.60011 W Population (1990): 309 (122 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68647 Monroe, NH Zip code(s): 03771 Monroe, NY (village, FIPS 47988) Location: 41.32063 N, 74.18629 W Population (1990): 6672 (2246 housing units) Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 10950 Monroe, OH (village, FIPS 51310) Location: 39.44610 N, 84.34811 W Population (1990): 4490 (1750 housing units) Area: 24.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45050 Monroe, OR (city, FIPS 49600) Location: 44.31682 N, 123.29850 W Population (1990): 448 (206 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97456 Monroe, PA (borough, FIPS 50440) Location: 41.71360 N, 76.47563 W Population (1990): 540 (233 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Monroe, SD (town, FIPS 43380) Location: 43.48705 N, 97.21603 W Population (1990): 151 (79 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57047 Monroe, TN Zip code(s): 38573 Monroe, UT (city, FIPS 51360) Location: 38.62426 N, 112.11954 W Population (1990): 1472 (581 housing units) Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Monroe, VA Zip code(s): 24574 Monroe, WA (city, FIPS 46685) Location: 47.85808 N, 121.98178 W Population (1990): 4278 (1712 housing units) Area: 9.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98272 Monroe, WI (city, FIPS 53750) Location: 42.59978 N, 89.64384 W Population (1990): 10241 (4556 housing units) Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53566 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
memory Access Memory} or {Read-Only Memory}, but in the general sense it can be any device that can hold {data} in {machine-readable} format. (1996-05-25) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mamre manliness. (1.) An Amoritish chief in alliance with Abraham (Gen. 14:13, 24). (2.) The name of the place in the neighbourhood of Hebron (q.v.) where Abraham dwelt (Gen. 23:17, 19; 35:27); called also in Authorized Version (13:18) the "plain of Mamre," but in Revised Version more correctly "the oaks [marg., 'terebinths'] of Mamre." The name probably denotes the "oak grove" or the "wood of Mamre," thus designated after Abraham's ally. This "grove" must have been within sight of or "facing" Machpelah (q.v.). The site of Mamre has been identified with Ballatet Selta, i.e., "the oak of rest", where there is a tree called "Abraham's oak," about a mile and a half west of Hebron. Others identify it with er-Rameh, 2 miles north of Hebron. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mamre, rebellious; bitter; set with trees |