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.
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 (Zoöl.), 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
(Ipomœa 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.
Man
(Man) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Manning.]
1. 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.
See how the surly Warwick mans the wall !
Shak.
They man their boats, and all their young men arm.
Waller. 2. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify. "Theodosius having manned his
soul with proper reflections." Addison.
3. To tame, as a hawk. [R.] Shak.
4. To furnish with a servant or servants. [Obs.] Shak.
